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03468aam a2200385Ka 4500 001 0DFB07E47F5111E8A5BED64C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180704011050 008 130611s2013 nyu 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0393324818 020 $a 9780393324815 035 $a (OCoLC)847708757 040 $a CD5 $b eng $c CD5 $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Lewis, Michael $q (Michael M.) 245 10 $a Moneyball : $b the art of winning an unfair game / $c Michael Lewis. 260 $a New York : $b W.W. Norton : $c 2013. 300 $a xv, 317 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes index. 505 0 $a The curse of talent -- How to find a ballplayer -- The enlightenment -- Field of ignorance -- The Jeremy Brown blue plate special -- The science of winning an unfair game -- Giambi's hole -- Scott Hatteberg, pickin' machine -- The trading desk -- Anatomy of an undervalued pitcher -- The human element -- The speed of the idea -- The Badger -- Inside baseball's religious war. 520 $a This book explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money. The author examines the fallacy behind the major league baseball refrain that the team with the biggest wallet is supposed to win. Over the past four years the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the best records in the country. General Manager Billy Beene is putting into practice on the field revolutionary principles to build his team that have been concocted by geek statisticians and college professors, rather than using the old scouting technique called "gut instinct." The author takes us behind the scenes with the Oakland A's, into the dugouts, and into the conference rooms where the annual Major League draft is held by conference call, and rumor mongering is par for the course as each team jockeys for position for their favored player. 520 $a I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it, before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? This book is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. 610 20 $a Oakland Athletics (Baseball team) 610 27 $a Oakland Athletics (Baseball team) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00540784 650 0 $a Baseball $x Scouting $z United States. 650 0 $a Baseball players $x Salaries, etc. $z United States. 650 0 $a Baseball $x Economic aspects $z United States. 650 7 $a Baseball $x Economic aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00827920 650 7 $a Baseball players $x Salaries, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00828022 650 7 $a Baseball $x Scouting. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00827949 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20180704015918.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0DFB07E47F5111E8A5BED64C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search