Moneyball (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Lewis
- First Published: 2003
- Type of Work: Current affairs
- Time of Work: Summer, 2002 (with numerous flashbacks)
- Setting: Oakland, California, and other major league cities
- Principal Characters: Billy Beane, Paul DePodesta, Scott Hatteberg, Chad Bradford
- Genres: Nonfiction, Current affairs
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, California, Executives, Business or business people, Money, Baseball, Sports
- Locales: Oakland, CA
In Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis offers a behind-the-scenes account of how the Oakland Athletics (A’s) major-league baseball team has outplayed wealthier teams with much bigger payrolls. Accompanying the A’s during their 2002 run to the Western Division championship, Lewis focuses his attention on the efforts and background of the team’s unorthodox general manager, Billy Beane, and on Beane’s staff, especially Paul DePodesta, a Harvard-educated “number cruncher.”
The problem faced by Beane and the general managers of other...
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