By Michael Lewis

Monday, October 13, 2008

Three years ago I published a book about baseball, called Moneyball, that sought to explain how the A's won so many games with so little money. The short answer was that A's front-office folks had abandoned old-fashioned baseball management for a new complexity. They'd found better ways to use stats, which enabled them to value players and strategies more accurately than their competitors did. Before the book was released, I sent a copy to Oakland GM Billy Beane. He had no idea what I'd written, ...

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