* Review: Moneyball

August 17, 2009

From HowtoWatchSports.com.

Upshot:

The story, non-fiction, is about Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane and how he outsmarted the rest of Major League Baseball to build a competitive team on a tiny salary budget.

It talks about Beane’s failures as a player in the big leagues, and his rise to glory as a GM. Along the way it digs into the stories of some of Beane’s prized players, who helped the A’s improbably win 100 games while they might not have made any other big league roster.

But in a few months I won’t remember any of that, because Moneyball is not about baseball.

It’s about thinking about baseball.

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