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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

by Michael Lewis

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The Baltimore Sun recently spoke with Michael Lewis, whose works include Liar’s Poker and Moneyball, on his latest book, a lighter, more personal account of fatherhood. Here's an excerpt from their Q&A on Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood: How much do you compare, as a ...

... and capable of pining down my thoughts so concisely.) At one point he is talking about how much he liked a book named Moneyball by Michael Lewis and he writes, "Anyway, I understood about one word in every four of Moneyball, and it's still the best and most engrossing sports book I've ...

... 026945">review 2. Dreams from my father. Finished 3/25. 3. The Yankee Years by Tom Verducci. Finished 4/23 4. Moneyball. Finished 5/3 5. A-Rod by Selena Roberts. Finished 5/27 6. The end of Overeating * 7. Predictably Irrational * 8. The Man who mistook his wife for ...

*Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game *The God Delusion *Do You Speak American? *Letter to a Christian Nation *I Am America (And So Can You!) (borderline fiction/nonfiction) *The Physics of Star Trek *Classical Mythology *The Christian World: A Global History *Cannib ...

China Court by Rumer Godden MoneyBall: the art of winning an unfair game by Michael Lewis Deadly Doubles by Carolyn Keene To Serve Man by Damon Knight A Match to the Heart by Gretel Ehrlich

... 17. Fat Girl, 18. How Soccer Explains the World, and 19. Screwball. In the baseball vein, 20. Fantasyland and 21. Moneyball. Guess that catches me partway up--I'm sure I'll remember more later!

So. Very. Excited. I just read Moneyball and loved it. The person below me turns their nose up at professional sports spectators.

I'm listening to Moneyball which also started off slow but is totally engrossing now.

I'm listening to Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game in preparation for baseball season.

aviddiva in Bestsellers over the Years : 2003 (Feb 18, 2008, 12:01am)

I've read The Time Traveler's Wife and enjoyed it, but didn't keep it. I gave Moneyball to my husband for his birthday that year, and so I've heard quite a bit about it, but didn't read it myself. I read Angels and Demons and thought it was dopey, so I didn't bother to read or see The Da Vi ...

... top nine of 2003 according to Peoples Magazine. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (Doubleday) 20,232 copies on LT Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis (Norton) 1,163 copies The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (MacAdam/Cage) 10,381 copies ...

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Dystopos in Baseball : help, please! (Nov 21, 2007, 12:54pm)

... find is Marketing Your Dreams: Business and Life Lessons from Bill Veeck Baseball's Marketing Genius Outside of that, Moneyball is the mass-market classic about building an MLB contender. Feeding the Monster is more specific to Red Sox team culture. All Roads Lead to October looks into ...

Stolen Bases - too risky (for example, per Moneyball) or critical to big wins?

asabel in Baseball : Top 10 Baseball Books (Sep 16, 2007, 11:54pm)

... I have read ranked in order of preference: 1. Boys of Summer (One of my all-time favorite books in any genre) 2. Moneyball 3. Numbers game 4. Physics of baseball 5. When the Bad Guys Won (Probably not an all-time classic, but I am a Mets fan, so I enjoyed it) Can you think ...

Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis The Sweetheart Season by Karen Joy Fowler This is Baseball by Margaret Blackstone Box Socials by W.P. Kinsella

... That still leaves many plain old Michael Lewis, two of them well-represented in LT. The biggie isn't really plain old, but Moneyball Michael M. Lewis has over 1000 copies. Hmm, the Moneball touchstone picks up a couple of strays.

... 1809 by Bernard Cornwall Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading by Maureen Corrigan Trawler by Redmond O'Hanlon Moneyball by Michael Lewis Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell and Chasing Che by Patrick Symmes

johnnylogic in Science! : the day job (Mar 16, 2007, 1:45pm)

... criterion for maximizing the long-term growth rate of repeated plays in a gambling/investing "game". SABERMETRICS *Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis: Well written account of the use of statistics by the Oakland A's to mitigate their team's limited resources. ...

... by John Graves *** Sports Last Dance by John Feinstein ** This ain't Brain Surgery by Larry Deirker *** Moneyball by Michael Lewis **** Serious history Kosovo : A short history **** Parenting playful parenting by Lawrence Cohen ***** raising your spirited child ...

... fetishism. Lloyd is undeniably clever and convivial, but he has yet to make his case for universal computationalism. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis **** The story of the Oakland Athletics (circa 2002) and their salvation through sabermetics. I have never been ...

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