Name: Moneyball: The art of Winning an Unfair Game (en Inglés)
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Author: Michael Lewis
ISBN: 9780393057652

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Moneyball: The art of Winning an Unfair Game (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Michael Lewis

Editorial

W. W. Norton & Company

Año

2003

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

24.6 x 15.6 x 2.6 cm

Peso

0.56 kg.

ISBN

0393057658

ISBN13

9780393057652

N° edición

Categorías

Gestión e instalaciones deportivas
Historia del deporte
Béisbol

Moneyball: The art of Winning an Unfair Game (en Inglés)

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Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only the single most influential baseball book ever (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what may be the best book ever written on business (Weekly Standard).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. What these geek numbers show--no, prove--is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics. Billy paid attention to those numbers --with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to--and this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael 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?

Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis (Nueva Orleans, 1960) es un reconocido escritor y periodista estadounidense especializado en economía, finanzas y cultura popular. Graduado en Historia del Arte por la Universidad de Princeton y con un máster en Economía por la London School of Economics, trabajó como corredor de bonos en Salomon Brothers, experiencia que narró en su primer libro, Liar’s Poker (1989). Desde entonces, ha publicado numerosas obras de no ficción que combinan investigación rigurosa con una narrativa accesible y envolvente.

Entre sus títulos más destacados se encuentran Moneyball: Rompiendo las reglas (2003), The Blind Side (2006), La gran apuesta (The Big Short, 2010) y Flash Boys: La revolución de Wall Street (2014). Varias de estas obras han sido adaptadas al cine con gran éxito, incluyendo Moneyball y The Big Short, esta última ganadora del Óscar al Mejor Guion Adaptado. Su libro más reciente, Going Infinite (2023), aborda el ascenso y caída de Sam Bankman-Fried y la plataforma FTX. Lewis ha sido galardonado con premios como el Gerald Loeb Award y fue elegido miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Ciencias en 2023.

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