Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Book Information
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
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| Publish Date: | 06/17/2003 |
| Pages: | 304 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780393057652 |
| ISBN-10: | 0393057658 |
| Language: | English |
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Full Description
Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge--insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.
