Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes The New Yorker The Oakland Athletics have reached the post-season playoffs three years in a row, even though they spend just one dollar for every three that the New York Yankees spend. Their secret, as Lewis's lively account demonstrates, is not on the field but in the front office, in the shape of the general manager, Billy Beane. Unable to afford the star hires of his big-spending rivals, Beane disdains the received wisdom about what makes a player valuable, and has a passion for neglected statistics that reveal how runs are really scored. Beane's ideas are beginning to attract disciples, most notably at the Boston Red Sox, who nearly lured him away from Oakland over the winter. At the last moment, Beane's loyalty got the better of him; besides, moving to a team with a much larger payroll would have diminished the challenge.
PrefaceCh. 1The curse of talent3Ch. 2How to find a ballplayer14Ch. 3The enlightenment43Ch. 4Field of ignorance64Ch. 5The Jeremy Brown blue plate special97Ch. 6The science of winning an unfair game119Ch. 7Giambi's hole138Ch. 8Scott Hatteberg, pickin' machine162Ch. 9The trading desk188Ch. 10Anatomy of an undervalued pitcher217Ch. 11The human element244Ch. 12The speed of the idea263Epilogue : the badger281Postscript : inside baseball's religious war287Acknowledgments303Index305
