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 in Gotham and L.A. On the other hand, as Lewis shows us in his engaging saga of the Oakland Athletics, there are always ways to win on the cheap. The hero of Lewis' tale is Oakland General Manager Billy Beane, a bust as a player but a deft judge of talent. Lewis was granted what appears to be unlimited access--he often found himself in the Oakland executive offices when a big trade was going down--and his book reads like it. He also does a wonderful job of picking the brains and explaining the motives of the baseball statistics geeks who are helping redefine the way the game will be played in the twenty-first century. With so many baseball books to choose from, it is difficult to single out a few as must-haves, but this one comes pretty close.
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Hardcover) - $16.47
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Other books from Michael Lewis
The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game by Michael Lewis (Paperback) - $11.16
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The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics by Michael Lewis (Hardcover) - $19.77
Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street by Michael Lewis (Paperback) - $10.20
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis (Paperback) - $9.56
Coach: Lessons on the Game of Life by Michael Lewis (Kindle Edition) - $7.16
The Money Culture by Michael Lewis (Paperback) - $10.20
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Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House by Michael Lewis (Paperback) - $10.17
Losers by Michael Lewis (Kindle Edition) - $7.96
Altering Fate: Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future by Michael Lewis (Paperback) - $16.95
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (Paperback) - $10.17
Next: The Future Just Happened by Michael Lewis (Kindle Edition) - $7.96
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story by Michael Lewis (Kindle Edition) - $7.96
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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