Автор:Michael Lewis Год: 2003 Издание:Random House Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 9780739317747 "I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. 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 with an innocent question: How did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games?" 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. 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. These numbers prove that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. This information has been around for years, and nobody paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland...
