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. The logical places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. 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.In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?
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"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. STILL--very entertaining and well worth the read. " — Bill (4 out of 5 stars)
"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. STILL--very entertaining and well worth the read. "
“Ebullient, invigorating…Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room.”
“This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame.”
“A journalistic tour de force.”
“By playing Boswell to Beane’s Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years.”
" love hearing inside stories into the financial side of 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. I would not recommend this book to people without some basic interest and knowledge about baseball. "
" Lewis manages to take a subject which I all but swore off in my youth and make it engagingly real. Using the 2002 Oakland A's as a frame, Lewis explores the insurgency of statistical analysis in America's favorite pastime. "
" Absolutely intriguing. Could not put it down. (But sort of fails as a piece of journalism. Not very objective, a lot of exaggeration.) "
" Since I am entering this book a year after I read it and can still remember what OBP means and who Billy Beane is it must be a pretty good book. "
" The most compelling nonfiction book I've read. Even a reader with only a passing interest in baseball and how it works will find it hard to stop reading. If I could give it more stars, I totally would. "
" Billy Beane and the Oakland A's. I think it was me first exposure to Michael Lewis. He's become one of my favorites. "
" One of the best books I've ever read. Michael Lewis is an artist. This was a breakthrough book for me as a journalist and a baseball fan. My world's collided perfectly. "
Michael Lewis is the New York Times bestselling author of several books. His global bestselling books lift the lid on the biggest stories of our time. They include Flash Boys, an exposé of high-speed scamming; The Big Short, which was made into a Oscar-winning film; Liar’s Poker, the book that defined the excesses of the 1980s; The Fifth Risk, revealing what happens when democracy unravels, and The Premonition, one of the first books to take account of the coronavirus pandemic. He was educated at Princeton University and the London School of Economics.
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