ISBN: 0393324818 - - Baseball- - General ***************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** This is a used Trade Paper copy in Very Good condition. It shows very little wear. A nice copy. ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* Synopses & Reviews Publisher Comments: "The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. " "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. " ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* "Michael Lewis"s new book is a sensation. It treats a topic that would seem to interest only sports fans: how Billy Beane, the charismatic general manager of the Oakland Athletics, turned his baseball team around using, of all things, statistics. What next — an inspirational tale about superior database management? But there are some broader lessons in Lewis"s book that make it worth the attention also of people who do not know the difference between a slider and a screwball. Those lessons have to do, above all, with the limits of human rationality and the efficiency of labor markets. If Lewis is right about the blunders and the confusions of those who run baseball teams, then his tale has a lot to tell us about blunders and confusions in many other domains." Cass R. Sunstein & Richard Thaler, The New Republic ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* I accept payment in the form of postal money orders and personal checks. Personal checks must clear before book is mailed. P/h is $2.50 media mail USA - Fixed cost and not actual shipping as epier may indicate. Insurance is optional, but encouraged in order to cover loss or damage in the mail. Postage extra for Alaska and Hawaii. ********************************************************************************************************************************************************* International p/h will be determined at the end of auction. International payment must be in the form of cash only - USD, Euros, GBP or Scandinavian Krona. Thanks for looking!

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