![]() ![]() " Lewis manages to take a subject which I all but swore off in my youth and make it engagingly real. ![]() I would not recommend this book to people without some basic interest and knowledge about baseball. " A classic Lewis book - storytelling without a huge focus on numbers despite their relevance - however if you (as in my case) know nothing about baseball some parts of the book looses value. " love hearing inside stories into the financial side of baseball Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.STILL-very entertaining and well worth the read. "Took me so long to read this that by the time I did it seemed like I already had.I was completely familiar with all the themes of the book from having read them elsewhere. ![]() He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. ![]()
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