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Author Michael Lewis takes you inside the hidden process of the 2002 baseball draft as seen by Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his egghead staff, and by Beane's snuff-sniffing, monosyllabic, case-hardened baseball scouts. Lewis moves with grace and speed, back and forth across 30 years of baseball history, delving into baseball lore, statistics, drafting processes, the baseball business, baseball's current cast of characters and the way they all interplay. Lewis shows how baseball and derivative investment strategies can be viewed in the same framework. In the friendly confines of baseball, he presents a million dollar lesson about the inefficiency of sloppy data. Defective athletes as redeemed heroes, baseball as a metaphor for business, what a concept! getAbstract.com recommends this intriguing book to everyone who loves baseball, numbers, box scores, statistics, business theory and a good yarn about unlikely heroes who are changing sports' business and sports' history.

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W.W. Norton