He attended the private, nondenominational, co-educational college preparatory Isidore Newman School in New Orleans. Thomas Lewis and community activist Diana Monroe Lewis. Lewis was born in New Orleans to corporate lawyer J. His bestselling books include Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt (2014) The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010) The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (2006) Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (2003) and Liar's Poker (1989). Michael Lewis is an American contemporary non-fiction author and financial journalist. Currently-Currently-lives in Berkeley, California.Education-B.A., Princeton M.B.A., London School of Economics.Moneyball became a 2011 film staring Brad Pitt. Michael Lewis's brilliant, irreverent reporting takes us from the dugouts and locker rooms-where coaches and players struggle to unlearn most of what they know about pitching and hitting-to the boardrooms, where we meet owners who begin to look like fools at the poker table, spending enormous sums without a clue what they are doing.Ĭombine money, science, entertainment, and egos, and you have a story that Michael Lewis is magnificently suited to tell. Billy Beane, general manager of the Athletics, is putting into practice on the field revolutionary principles garnered from geek statisticians and college professors. It hasn't made any difference to Oakland: their fabulous season included an American League record for consecutive victories.

Last year their superstar, Jason Giambi, went to the superrich Yankees. In major league baseball the biggest wallet is supposed to win: rich teams spend four times as much on talent as poor teams.īut over the past four years, the Oakland Athletics, a major league team with a minor league payroll, have had one of the best records. The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought. Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

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