Moneyball, Michael Lewis
Moneyball, Michael Lewis
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Moneyball
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Author: Michael Lewis

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 10 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2003

Synopsis

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 giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.

In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, 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?

About The Author

Michael Lewis is the bestselling author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Blind Side, and Flash Boys. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and three children.Scott Brick, an acclaimed voice artist, screenwriter, and actor, has performed on film, television, and radio. His stage appearances throughout the US include Cyrano, Hamlet, and MacBeth. In the audio industry, Scott has won over 20 Earphones Awards, as well as the 2003 Audie Award in the Best Science Fiction category for Dune: The Butlerian Jihad. After recording nearly 250 books in five years, AudioFile Magazine named Scott “one of the fastest-rising stars in the audiobook galaxy” and proclaimed him one of their Golden Voices. Brick’s range is unparalleled as he reads thrillers to narrative nonfiction, from biographies to science fiction with aplomb.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Will on April 25, 2025

Michael Lewis - image from Forbes This is one of the best baseball books I have ever read, and that is saying something. Lewis’ focus is on Billy Bean, the GM of the Oakland Athletics. Because Oakland is a small-market team, Bean must use his brain to tease out the players who can help his team, at......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on April 24, 2012

Having the misfortune of being a Kansas City Royals fan, I thought I’d had any interest in baseball beaten out of me by season after season of humiliation. Plus, the endless debate about the unfairness of large market vs. small market baseball had made my eyes glaze over years ago so I didn’t pay mu......more

Goodreads review by Jason on January 29, 2015

This is a good book, but not as good as I thought it was going to be. Sometimes I find technical writing to be a bit repetitive and this definitely leans more toward technical non-fiction than biography (I was hoping for more of a human interest story here)—because even though Billy Beane takes up a......more

Goodreads review by Riku on April 10, 2014

It was a better story before I knew the whole story. Almost every book on randomness I have read had a reference to Moneyball and I had built up my own version about this story (I had even told a few people that version!) and it imagined everybody doing what Billy Beane was doing, and Billy Beane do......more

Quotes

The single most influential baseball book ever.—Rob Neyer, Slate

Another journalistic tour de force.—Wall Street Journal

Engaging, informative, and deliciously contrarian.—Washington Post

Anyone who cares about baseball must read Moneyball. —Newsweek

An extraordinary job of reporting and writing.—San Jose Mercury News

You have to read Moneyball.... Amazing anecdotes... an entertaining, enlightening read. —Baseball America

Ebullient, invigorating... provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room.—Time

One of the most enjoyable baseball books in years.—New York Times Book Review

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