Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game

Michael Lewis
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Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game

Michael Lewis
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Overall rating: 4.285714 / 5 from 14 reviews.

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Nice read

"Typical Michael Lewis; if you look his other books, you’ll probably like this one."

Thomas (5/5)

One of my favourites!

"Having worked in sport this book (and movie) are one of my favourites sports stories. High recommended!"

JPCC (5/5)

baseball

"Looking at the game of baseball how undervalued baseball players and executives are overlooked and rejected as unfit to compete in Major League Baseball. Using numbers collected over the years on players by statisticians, physics professors including software engineers. Beane put together a team no one wanted, turning a low budget team into one of the most successful teams in the MLB. The movie by the same name is worth seeing."

Simplylife (3/5)

For Fans of the Game

"I read this book after watching and thoroughly enjoying the film. In my view, the book is even better. Any fan of baseball will get a kick out of Lewis' insights into the game. Highly recommended!"

Singh (5/5)

misses the plate

"As an A's fan I thought this would be right up my power alley. It is and it isn't. Michael Lewis focuses on how GM Billu Beane was able to gain the system by looking for guys who had undervalued on-base percentages. The problem is Lewis ignored the fact this was not the SOLE reason the A's became a playoff team. Their starting pitching was first-rate and that had zero to do with sabermetrics. It had more to do with traditional scouting."

Bdonut (3/5)

Great read

"Writer did a superb job, writing an entertaining read on how the Oakland A's became a contender."

BC B. (5/5)

How did they do it?

"The Oakland A's took a revolutionary approach to making of a baseball team. This wasn't out of want but rather necessity. The book digs so much deeper into the stats and thinking that went into this new approach. A great read for the numbers and baseball junky alike providing a glimpse into new ways of doing things and achieving great results against all odds."

Kbro7ca (5/5)

For any baseball lover

"An interesting and quick read for the baseball fan in all of us!"

Kate (5/5)

Interesting

"#plumreview The book that help revolutionize the way baseball teams are put together."

Step (4/5)

Valuable for any Leader

"Yes, this book is about baseball but there are many valuable concepts that translate to any organization. This book is about looking beyond the way things have always been done. An essential book on leadership."

Twasi (5/5)

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  • Published date: Jun 21, 2004
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • ISBN: 9780739317747
  • Dimensions: 5.06" W x 1.15" L x 5.94" H
The best book of the year, [Moneyball] already feels like the most influential book on sports ever written. If you're a baseball fan, Moneyball is a must. —People

Lewis has hit another one out of the park…You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts about it.—Janet Maslin, New York Times

Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. It may be the best business book anyone has written. —Mark Gerson, Weekly Standard

By playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years.—Lawrence S. Ritter, New York Times Book Review

It’s a sports story that’s actually a business story that’s also a story about preconceptions. Plus, Michael Lewis’s writing is so clear, readable, and highly entertaining.—Charles Yu, Literary Hub

Ebullient, invigorating…Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room.—Lev Grossman, Time

A journalistic tour de force.—Richard J. Tofel, Wall Street Journal

Michael Lewis's beautiful obsession with the idea of value has once again yielded gold…Moneyball explains baseball's startling new insight; that for all our dreams of blasts to the bleachers, the sport's hidden glory lies in not getting out. —Garry Trudeau

I understood about one in four words of Moneyball, and it's still the best and most engrossing sports book I've read in years. If you know anything about baseball, you will enjoy it four times as much as I did, which means that you might explode. —Nick Hornby, The Believer

Rarely has the lesson of a book...had such an enormous impact....[Moneyball] showcase[s] Lewis’s great gift of finding the perfect characters and narratives to animate big, complex ideas that have been hiding in plain sight. —Daniel Riley, GQ
Michael Lewis is the author of the bestsellers Liar''s Poker and The New New Thing, among other books. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their two daughters.

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