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BP Daily: 'Moneyball,' six years later

By Kevin Goldstein
Baseball Prospectus

Monday, July 27, 2009

Six years after the publication of Michael Lewis' "Moneyball," it's understandable that Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane is a little perplexed about why people still want to talk about the book. "I think there's been a broadly held misconception that the ideas put forward in 'Moneyball' were a permanent template as to how we'd do business," Beane said Friday during an interview. "But it's really just a snapshot in a moment of time." That much is clear when one looks at how the A's operated e ...

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