作者：MichaelLewis
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
副标题：TheArtofWinninganUnfairGame
出版年：2004-3-17
页数：320
定价：USD15.95
装帧：Paperback
ISBN：9780393324815
内容简介
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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.
作者简介
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Michael Lewis is the author of the bestsellers Liar’s Poker and The New New Thing. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their two daughters.
目录
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Preface
Chapter 1. The Curse of Talent
Chapter 2. How to Find a Ballplayer
Chapter 3. The Enlightenment
Chapter 4. Field of Ignorance
Chapter 5. The Jeremy Brown Blue Plate Special
Chapter 6. The Science of Winning an Unfair Game
Chapter 7. Giambi’s Hole
Chapter 8. Scott Hatteberg, Pickin’ Machine
Chapter 9. The Trading Desk
Chapter 10. Anatomy of an Undervalued Pitcher
Chapter 11. The Human Element
Chapter 12. The Speed of the Idea
Epilogue: The Badger
Postscript: Inside Baseball’s Religious War
Acknowledgments
Index
评论 ······
Search for undervalued ball players the same way undervalued stocks are sought; statistics is the tool;it is fun to see the underdog win.
听过一个段子，是说hatoyama yukio当年念书的时候，也写过有关如何更快捷的赢球，获得冠军的公式和paper. 讲段子的人，是hatoyama的友人，姑且信吧。 看书的感觉， 不如看电影，所以后者成功了？
魔球理论。职业竞技体育拥抱大数据。Billy Beane MLB的Oakland，莫雷NBA的休斯顿火箭。
这些执拗的人或许还是没法改变这个世界，庆幸的是，这个世界也最终没能改变这些执拗的人。
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