Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.

Lewis was in the room with the A's top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. 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. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike. --John Moe

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"One of the best baseball—and management—books out....Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard).

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?

With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. 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 front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilities—his intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admission—but the real jackpot is a cache of numbers—numbers!—collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors.

What these geek numbers show—no, prove—is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics.

Billy paid attention to those numbers —with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to—and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. 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.

In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael 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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5 out of 5 stars Thorough and prescient.......2007-10-25

Not much I can add that has not already been mentioned about this revolutionary book. It does get a tad repetitive and wordy in the economic theory portions, but the fact that pro baseball teams, their scouts, and other top brass utilize Lewis and Beane's theories prove this book has merit. Moneyball is an indictment of all the socialist baseball haters who think money wins baseball games. This is clearly proven false each year, starting with the Athletics nearly a decade ago.

5 out of 5 stars Moneyball.......2007-10-16

If you love baseball and have any kind of appreciation for statistics, you'll love this book.

5 out of 5 stars Moneyball as antidote to stupidity.......2007-10-05

Read Michael Lewis' Moneyball before the playoffs get too far along. As Lewis quotes someone in the book "Up till I was 14 years old, everything I learned about baseball came from broadcasters. And it was all b------t!" So before Joe Morgan et al start waxing eloquently about "manufacturing runs, etc." (which means abandoning the game that got you to the playoffs), you better immunize yourself with this book. It's simply the best baseball book ever.

5 out of 5 stars Amazing Insight.......2007-10-03

Provides intriguing insight into the real skills that are required by a major leaguer and those coaching decisions that do and don't make sense.

5 out of 5 stars A Must for Baseball Fans.......2007-09-28

Anyone who considers themselves a die-hard baseball fan must read this book.... but you knew that already.
Winning the Salary Game (General Trade Books)
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    Sherry Chastain
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    The Fast Forward MBA in Investing
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    John Waggoner
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    The Fast Forward MBA in Investing brings you the information you need when you need it most—now!

    This practical, easy-to-use guide gives you instant access to the cutting-edge ideas and hard-won wisdom of today's investment world. In short, lively segments using real-world examples, it delivers the facts you need to navigate complex investment issues. You'll find brief descriptions of key concepts, tips on real-world applications, compact case studies, clear definitions, and warnings on how to avoid pitfalls.

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    Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice (Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law)
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      Songs without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice (Philosophy, Social Theory, and the Rule of Law)
      Desmond Manderson
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      In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively using music as a model, he demonstrates that law is not a sterile, rational structure, but a cultural form to be valued and enhanced through rhetoric and metaphors, form, images, and symbols. To further develop this argument, the book is divided into chapters, each of which is based on a different musical form.
      Law, for Manderson, should strive for neither coherence nor integrity. Rather, it is imperfectly realized, constantly reinterpreted, and always in flux. Songs without Music is written in an original, engaging, and often humorous style, and exhibits a deep knowledge of both law and music. It successfully traverses several disciplines and builds an original and persuasive argument for a legal aesthetic. The book will appeal to a broad readership in law, political theory, literary criticism, and cultural studies.

      Prices, Products, and People: Analyzing Agricultural Markets in Developing Countries
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        Agrarfrost's Pizza-Puffer debuts in Germany; Krixx fries hot sellers in Japanese c-stores.(POTATO BUSINESS UPDATE): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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          Another Record Potato Crop in Canada Fuels Greater Exports to United States.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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            Another Record Potato Crop in Canada Fuels Greater Exports to United States.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International

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            Title: Another Record Potato Crop in Canada Fuels Greater Exports to United States.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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            Aromatic potato wedges among launches from Agrarfrost at InterCool and SIAL fairs.(Potato Trends Watch): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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              As hot potato market cools down, producers take stock of the shock: in business terms as in the mystery of the cosmos, the question is as simplistic as ... from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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                As hot potato market cools down, producers take stock of the shock: in business terms as in the mystery of the cosmos, the question is as simplistic as ... from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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                Title: As hot potato market cools down, producers take stock of the shock: in business terms as in the mystery of the cosmos, the question is as simplistic as it is complex: Can a market expand forever, or is it finite and thus destined to eventually collapse upon itself? When it comes to potatoes, geometric reality alone would suggest that good times will roll again. (News from Europe).
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                Aviko aims high as Cosun challenges it to boost share of market. (News from Europe).(Royal Cosun): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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                  Aviko aims high as Cosun challenges it to boost share of market. (News from Europe).(Royal Cosun): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International

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                  Title: Aviko aims high as Cosun challenges it to boost share of market. (News from Europe).(Royal Cosun)
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                  Aviko gets funding from European Union for new eco-friendly blanching system.(POTATO & VEGETABLE TRENDS) : An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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                    Title: Aviko gets funding from European Union for new eco-friendly blanching system.(POTATO & VEGETABLE TRENDS)
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                    Aviko plants flag in United States market as factory rises on North Dakota plains.: An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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                      Aviko plants flag in United States market as factory rises on North Dakota plains.: An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International

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                      From the supplier: Aviko BV has launched an attempt to establish a foothold in the US market by building a $50 million french fry plant in North Dakota. The Dutch company is the largest producer of frozen and chilled potatoes on the European continent and it sees the new US operation as a vital link in its plan to become one of the world's top potato processing companies. Aviko expects to produce some 100,000 tons of processed potato products every year in the US plant.

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                      Title: Aviko plants flag in United States market as factory rises on North Dakota plains.
                      Publication: Quick Frozen Foods International (Magazine/Journal)
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                      Aviko Streamlines Production, Unveils Its Mascot Spudley.(Brief Article): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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                        Aviko Streamlines Production, Unveils Its Mascot Spudley.(Brief Article): An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
                        J.J. Pierce
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                        Title: Aviko Streamlines Production, Unveils Its Mascot Spudley.(Brief Article)
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                        Aviko targets whole world for opportunity; especially steps up activity in East Europe.: An article from: Quick Frozen Foods International
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                          From the supplier: Aviko BV, the larger frozen and chilled potato producer in Europe, has embarked on an expansion frenzy that is taking its products across the globe. It has a $70 million plant in North Dakota that has been operational for more than a year, while focusing on Argentina, Brazil and Chile. It is also gearing up its activities in the Baltics and other former East Bloc republics, including Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. Its strategy is to establish an alliance with domestic associates or partners which are familiar with local business conditions.

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                          International Cell Biology 1980 - 1981: Papers Presented at the Second International Congress on Cell Biology, Berlin (West), August 31 - September 5,
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                            Carbon Cycle in the Russian Arctic Seas
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                              Alexander A. Vetrov , and Evgenii A. Romankevich
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                              The book attempts to generalize the data in the carbon cycles of the Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, East-Siberian and Chukchi Seas by considering inter-correlations between sources of organic carbon, their fluxes, recycling and burial in bottom sediments. The study includes analysis of the set of conditions controlling the state of the Arctic ecosystem and their season variations. All biological communities (phythoplankton, macrophythobenthos, microphythobentos, bacterioplankton, zooplankton and zoobenthos) are taken into account regarding their participation in the carbon cycle, quantitative characteristics of carbon storage and productivity. The data and estimations will be useful for geologists, biologists and geochemists studying Arctic ecosystems; for specialists modeling carbon cycling in the biosphere and forecasting global climate change; as well as for ecologists and petroleum geologists.

                              Carbon Cycle In The Russian Arctic Seas
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                                          Dateline: Toronto : The Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 1920-1924
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                                          • the making of the writer
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                                          Dateline: Toronto : The Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 1920-1924
                                          Ernest Hemingway , and William White
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                                          Dateline: Toronto collects all 172 pieces that Hemingway published in the Star, including those under pseudonyms. Hemingway readers will discern his unique voice already present in many of these pieces, particularly his knack for dialogue. It is also fascinating to discover early reportorial accounts of events and subjects that figure in his later fiction. As William White points out in his introduction to this work, "Much of it, over sixty years later, can still be read both as a record of the early twenties and as evidence of how Ernest Hemingway learned the craft of writing." The enthusiasm, wit, and skill with which these pieces were written guarantee that Dateline: Toronto will be read for pleasure, as excellent journalism, and for the insights it gives to Hemingway's works.

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                                          Dateline: Toronto collects all 172 pieces that Hemingway published in the Star, including those under pseudonyms. Hemingway readers will discern his unique voice already present in many of these pieces, particularly his knack for dialogue. It is also fascinating to discover early reportorial accounts of events and subjects that figure in his later fiction. As William White points out in his introduction to this work, "Much of it, over sixty years later, can still be read both as a record of the early twenties and as evidence of how Ernest Hemingway learned the craft of writing." The enthusiasm, wit, and skill with which these pieces were written guarantee that Dateline: Toronto will be read for pleasure, as excellent journalism, and for the insights it gives to Hemingway's works.

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                                          5 out of 5 stars the making of the writer.......2007-02-06

                                          In 1920 an unknown young American landed a reporting assignment with The Toronto Star. He moved to Paris, and over the next four years wrote 172 mostly by-lined pieces, and incidentally established his place as a professional writer.
                                          That young man was Ernest Hemingway.

                                          "Dateline Toronto" is a collection of all 172 of his pieces for The Star. There is serious reportage on conditions in postwar Europe and Turkey, on public figures and social events; the value of the franc, Prohibition, inflation, tourism and sports, but what shines through all of it is the human element, the conversations with the man on the street, dialogues overheard on the bus or in the shops, the point of view of the average Joe or Pierre.

                                          Hemingway made the news comprehensible to everybody. For example, a difficult subject like Canada's participation at the Genoa conference of 1922 is distilled to two sentences from a politician's mouth: "Canada's chief interest is the recognition of Russia...Canada has much harvest machinery for Russian export..." A report on a prizefight in Toronto is seen through the comments of the women spectators.

                                          Most surprising is the humour. Who knew Hemingway was a wit? Sometimes it appears in a wry turn of phrase or exaggerated description as in "Ted's Skeeters", an account of a fishing trip in a mosquito infested forest north of Toronto. :
                                          "The mosquitoes were coming through the netting as though it were the bars of a cage."

                                          In "A Free Shave" Hemingway parodies his own future work as he describes a visit to the barber college which "requires the cold, naked valor of the man who walks clear-eyed to death...."
                                          "I said, `I'm going upstairs.' Upstairs is where the free work is done by the beginners.
                                          A hush fell over the shop. `He's going upstairs'..."

                                          Torontonians who recall the Mel Lastman years will appreciate "Trading Celebrities", wherein Hemingway asks why not trade public figures among the nations as the big leagues do baseball players, and gives some ridiculous examples like this one.
                                          "What a boon to a community like Toronto, which doesn't know what else to do but elect officials who will keep on running. As in this case:
                                          Toronto, Feb 16.--Unnamed parties have completed negotiations between the Toronto City Council and... Hamburg, Germany for the exchange of Mayor Thomas Church in return for 20,000 tons of German shipping..."
                                          Well, you get the idea.

                                          If you wonder how Hemingway changed the art of literature, how he cut through the Victorian verbosity, straight to the heart of the matter, it's all here in his reporting.
                                          Dateline Toronto has been out of print for some time. If you can beg, borrow or buy a copy second hand, do not wait another minute. It's a rare look at the early twentieth century from the youthful eyes and mind of a man who would become one of its giants.


                                          5 out of 5 stars Young Hemingway.......1999-07-12

                                          Hemingway was 20-24 yrs old when he wrote these dispatches for the Toronto newspapers. He already had journalism experience in Kansas City and war experience in Italy. He had experienced his first broken heart. The work is fresh and clean and much of it could be printed in this morning's newspaper and it would be considered good. He covered the day-to-day and also peace conferences in Europe. He later said some of this is "juvenilia" and should not be included in his life's work. The writing is very good even at this young age.
                                          Dateline, Toronto: The complete Toronto star dispatches, 1920-1924
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                                            Dateline, Toronto: The Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 1920-1924
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                                              Dateline, Toronto: The Complete Toronto Star Dispatches, 1920-1924
                                              Ernest; White, William Hemingway
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