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| 1. | Amazon.com |
| Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of
Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major
Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team.
Conventional... read full editorial |
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| 2. | From Publishers Weekly |
| Lewis (Liar's Poker; The New New Thing) examines how in 2002 the Oakland
Athletics achieved a spectacular winning record while having the smallest
player payroll of any major league baseball team. Given... read full editorial |
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| 3. | From AudioFile |
| Before Bill James, baseball junkies, even those selecting players, were
relegated to assessing players and teams using only mundane statistics.
Then, the Oakland Athletics, under General Manager Billy Beane, adopted
James's... read full editorial |
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| 4. | From Booklist |
| Unlike professional football and basketball, Major League Baseball has no
cap on the amount of money a team can spend on its players, which makes it
nearly impossible for "small market" clubs to compete with the behemoths... read full editorial |
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| 5. | Weekly Standard |
| May be the best book ever written on business. |
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| 6. | Wall Street Journal |
| Another journalistic tour de force. |
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| 7. | Washington Post |
| Engaging, informative, and deliciously contrarian. |
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| 8. | New York Observer |
| Stunning....[Lewis's] explanations of the science of baseball...are
spellbinding. |
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| 9. | Garry Trudeau |
| A brilliantly told tale....Michael Lewis's beautiful obsession with the
idea of value has once again yielded gold. |
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| 10. | Newsweek |
| Anyone who cares about baseball must read Moneyball. |
