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A's vow to avoid big miscues

By Jim Caple
ESPN.com

Wednesday, October 1, 2003

Shortly after Billy Beane invented moist towelettes, the Oakland general manager developed the Google search engine. "I was just trying to retrieve junior high and Little League statistics so I could cut costs by lopping off another area of our scouting department,'' Beane recalled during a game last summer between placing phone calls to general managers Steve Phillips and Omar Minaya to ask if their refrigerators were running. "Being able to instantaneously search the entire World Wide Web ...

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