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	Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (ISBN 0393057658) is a book by Michael M. Lewis released in 2003 about the general manager of the Major League Baseball team Oakland Athletics, Billy Beane, and his team's approach to running the organization.
		The central premise of Moneyball is that the collected wisdom of baseball insiders (including players, managers, coaches, scouts, and the front office) over the past century is subjective and often flawed.
		Moneyball has made such an impact in professional baseball that the term itself has entered the lexicon of baseball.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moneyball (517 words)

	Reason: Balls: The joy of watching ideas win.
		It’s a tale of what happens when an energetic manager realizes that "the pursuit of truth [is], suddenly, the key to success," and that the possessors of this truth are outsiders shunned by the rigid hierarchy and insular mind-set that has dominated an industry for a century.
		Though Lewis has called Moneyball "the story of an idea" (the idea being sabermetric thought), in fact it’s the story of the temperamental, bull-headed revolutionary who was able to impose this idea on an unwilling host and take advantage of his market’s irrationalities.
		Critics of Beane and Moneyball say both are piggybacking on the success of Oakland’s three great young pitchers (Barry Zito, Tim Hudson, and Mark Mulder), but it’s entirely plausible that one or more of the three would have blown out their elbows in nonsabermetric organizations.
	www.reason.com /0312/cr.mw.balls.shtml (2016 words)

	Moneyball and the A's — TwinsTerritory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moneyball references that this is actually a team strategy the A's have.
		The conclusion of Michael Lewis, the author of Moneyball, was that after talking to a bunch of GM's around the league and watching Beane work, there was no other GM that operated like he did nor could provide the sort of ideas and input he was looking for when the book took shape.
		All I was suggesting was that Oakland, moneyball or not, was a good as they were becauset those three came of age at the same time, and Beane recieved his reputation as a master because of it.
	www.twinsterritory.com /Members/RTBinFFM/index_html/themoneyballas/view (2438 words)

	Baseball America - Majoring In Moneyball
		The "Moneyball" debate has raged for months and will continue to be a hot topic at the annual American Baseball Coaches Association convention in San Antonio, where college and amateur coaches from around the country gather each year.
		Walks and working counts are central principles in the "Moneyball" universe, and several college coaches agree with Anderson that elevating the pitch counts of opposing starters is an important element of offense.
		Second base might be the most "Moneyball" friendly position in college, because it's often a dead-end position populated by one-dimensional players who might hit but lack a pro body or all-around skills.
	www.baseballamerica.com /today/features/031223collegemoneyball.html (1897 words)

	John J. Miller on Moneyball by Michael Lewis on National Review Online
		Moneyball winds up becoming a brief against "smallball" — the theory that runs are best produced through bunting, stealing, and hitting sacrifice flies.
		Moneyball describes how the A's once threatened to fire one of the minor-league managers unless he increased his team's base-on-balls, which he promptly did.
		Moneyball is the best book I've ever read on baseball —; with the possible exception of one called Bless You Boys, by Sparky Anderson, chronicling the Tigers 1984 championship season.
	www.nationalreview.com /miller/miller071503.asp (1028 words)

	SONICS: The Sonics Play Moneyball: Part One
		However, Moneyball wasn't the catalyst for attempts to reinvent statistics in the NBA and the NFL.
		Like many characterizations of Moneyball, drawing that divide is an oversimplification, but that's what's bound to happen when complicated theories are brought to the general public through the media.
		One measure of Moneyball is something Lewis wrote in the introduction to the book: The A's caught his eye because of their remarkable performance in a metric invented by the late sabermatician Doug Pappas, Marginal Wins/Marginal Dollars, which evaluates team efficiency in spending money.
	www.nba.com /sonics/news/moneyball050119.html (1347 words)

	Amazinz.com Forums -> Moneyball and the Red Sox
		I was under the impression that Moneyball doesn't focus on defense or speed.
		Moneyball philosophy/sabermetric analysis is very interested in defense.
		They are not a moneyball team because of the payroll.
	www.amazinz.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=6787 (1577 words)

	Moneyball (Main Page)
		Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball.
		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.
		Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins.
	www.wwnorton.com /catalog/spring04/032481.htm (678 words)

	Moneyball Redux - Slate talks to the man who revolutionized baseball. By James Surowiecki
		Moneyball Redux - Slate talks to the man who revolutionized baseball.
		Although Michael Lewis' new book Moneyball is about Billy Beane and his successful transformation of the Oakland A's from also-rans to pennant contenders, the book's unsung hero is a man named Bill James.
		Over the past 25 years, James' work on player evaluation, player development, and baseball strategy—which inaugurated the body of baseball research known as sabermetrics—has revolutionized baseball analysis and overturned decades' worth of conventional wisdom.
	www.slate.com /id/2084193 (2388 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever.
		Moneyball is the best book Michael Lewis has written.
		Moneyball is about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's efforts to use statistics to get a competitive edge that translates into more runs scored versus the opponents and more wins.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393324818 (2387 words)

	VentureBlog: Moneyball
		Moneyball is about, at first blush, a very non-VentureBlog topic: baseball and the Oakland A's.
		In Moneyball, the analogies match closely with the entrepreurial battles many in the Valley fight every day.
		I highly recommend Moneyball as both a fun summer read and an interesting primer on how to compete on an unfair playing field.
	www.ventureblog.com /articles/indiv/2003/000108.html (633 words)

	AaronGleeman.com
		Moneyball is perfect for those of us with those dreams, because it has a ton of fly-on-the-wall moments.
		Moneyball goes into why they do all those those things and why they have the beliefs they do.
		I think the main thing I took away from from Moneyball is that the A's are operating under strict financial constraints and would love to be able to spend money on players that they find most attractive, like the Yankees or the Red Sox do.
	www.aarongleeman.com /2003_05_18_baseballblog_archive.html (9234 words)

	Amazinz.com Forums -> An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis
		The people who like and try to understand moneyball probably won't be surprised by anything that's in it.
		It's just affirmation of some of the aspects of moneyball that are the easiest to test.
		I don't remember the formula from the very beginning of moneyball that a lawyer I believe had discovered, it was something like 49 wins for 7 million, and this was how you can asses how good your team is at winning, or something like that lol...
	www.amazinz.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=6259 (363 words)

	Amazon.com: Moneyball: Books: Michael Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moneyball is an excellent non-fiction book that weaves the story of SABERMETRICS, Billy Bean's Oakland A's, and the revolution in baseball statistics (driven in part by the internet and personal computer) into an interesting story.
		The body of "Moneyball" lays out the tale of Billy's tenure as the general manager of the Oakland A's, guiding the reader through the arcane processes of free agency and the psychology of trading.
		Moneyball is a phenomenal book about the game and business of baseball, but it is also an insightful look, in the context of innovation, into the historical background and institutional framework of baseball along with the traits that made Billy Beane a successful innovator.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0739308157?v=glance (3294 words)

	Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (by Michael Lewis) (Info Feed Weblog)
		Everything here is my very personal writing and does not reflect the opinions of current or past employers, nor does it stem from confidential information obtained there.
		Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (by Michael Lewis)
		It is a book about the general manager of a poor baseball team defying the odds and winning a huge number of games despite having a laughable budget compared to the larger-than-life teams in the league.
	www.smalla.net /infofeed/2004/05/12/moneyball_the_art_of_winning_an_unfair_g.shtml (476 words)

	Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game By Rob Neyer and James Surowiecki
		Lewis' prose is as effortless and winning as ever, his reporting is exceptional, and his account of sabermetrics (loosely speaking, the statistical analysis of baseball) is rigorous and sophisticated.
		For all that, though, I didn't come away from Moneyball thinking Beane was some kind of visionary with a unique talent for sizing up players and predicting their future.
		And more tellingly, Moneyball is simply a book that you have to read if you want to consider yourself an informed baseball fan.
	www.slate.com /id/2083857/entry/2083881 (1531 words)

	Fool.com: Moneyball's Home Run Insights [Commentary] October 25, 2004
		Michael Lewis is the author of the best-selling Moneyball, a look into the roaring success the Oakland A's baseball team has achieved recently through contrary thinking and unconventional means.
		I think the reason that Moneyball resonated so much with stock market investors is that the asset that the Oakland A's are evaluating, baseball players, is just like any other asset, like stocks.
		Statistical research by Dimensional Fund Advisors and others on these four groupings of common stocks (small and large, value and growth) consistently shows that over long periods of time small-cap value stocks are the best-performing class.
	www.fool.com /news/commentary/2004/commentary04102501.htm (1256 words)

	Fool.com: Moneyball's Undervalued Players [Commentary] October 29, 2004
		Michael Lewis is the author of the best-selling Moneyball, a look into the roaring recent success of the Oakland A's baseball team gained through their contrary thinking and unconventional means.
		He turns down the Blue Jays job, knowing that everyone is going to emulate their approach, and that there is going to be a regression to the mean.
		The second thing is, when I signed up Moneyball as a book, it was after the 2002 amateur draft when the A's had some of the top picks in the draft and they picked all these guys that nobody thought they were going to pick.
	www.fool.com /news/commentary/2004/commentary04102907.htm (1343 words)

	SABR :\|\| Convention \| Beyond Moneyball
		Moneyball presents a strong but controversial perspective on the scouting and evaluation of talent in professional baseball.
		Moneyball will be examined in the light of that research.
		Both presenters are avid baseball fans whose knowledge of decision theory contributed to their tremendous shock, pain, and disbelief during game seven of the 2003 ALCS.
	www.sabr.org /sabr.cfm?a=cms,c,801,34,0 (352 words)

	Review \| Moneyball by Michael Lewis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		One of the reasons baseball fans remain so steadfast in their devotion is a sense of tradition.
		Michael Lewis, in his thought-provoking Moneyball, makes one wonder if school will soon be out.
		No one had established the most efficient way to use relief pitchers.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/moneyball.html (853 words)

	Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, notes by Brian Schwartz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, notes by Brian Schwartz W.W. Norton, 2003.
		But Moneyball tells the story of the Oakland A's (A's's??) general manager Billy Beane.
		He was the hottest prospect of 1980, according to the scouts.
	ucsub.colorado.edu /~schwartb/booknotes/lewis_michael_moneyball.html (1780 words)

	mrhe: Moneyball (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thanks to ShazAm's lending library, I was able to read Moneyball, by Michael Lewis, this week.
		Of course a lot of the hubbub that arose when the book first came out has died down by now, but Moneyball is still a valuable read for any baseball fan (or business person).
		The book is an interesting look at how Beane brought about a fundamental shift in how to run a baseball team, and the lesson learned - stagnation and unadaptability is a bad thing in business - can be applied to other areas in life as well.
	dartblogs.com /mrhe/archives/002351.html (320 words)

	Moneyball ~~Works~~ Worked!
		Skip Sauer and John Hakes have presented a paper on An Economic Evaluation of the Moneyball Hypothesis (via JC via Studes).
		These methods support Lewis's argument that the valuation of different skills was inefficient in the early part of this period, and that this was profitably exploited by managers with the ability to generate and interpret statistical knowledge.
		Consistent with Lewis's story and economic reasoning, the spread of this knowledge is associated with the market correcting the original mis-pricing.
	blog.ideoplex.com /sports/2004/12/02.html (125 words)

	'Moneyball' makes errors but gets its share of hits, too
		Alderson, now with the commissioner's office, does have a small but significant part in "Moneyball," but Beane is the unquestioned star of Michael Lewis' work.
		Running throughout the book is the theme that Beane, James, A's assistant GM Paul DePodesta and others who are not from the traditional baseball family are shrewder than those who run other teams and even administer the game.
		Excerpts of "Moneyball" have appeared in the New York Times Magazine and Sports Illustrated, and even before it hit the shelves the book was under attack from some parties unflatteringly portrayed.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2003/05/18/SP266198.DTL (830 words)

	Athletics Nation :: Joe, Billy and what 'moneyball' means
		Their Moneyball (#1) take is different but works as well as ours...
		And putting aside his ignorance about Moneyball and hatred of the A's, the guy is a god-awful announcer.
		I believe #1 is what "Moneyball" is all about, and it would be nice of the folks who are supposedly the voices of the game would talk more about that when referring to the term rather than oversimplifying things by saying "it's on-base percentage."
	www.athleticsnation.com /story/2005/5/6/14155/88848 (2362 words)

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