Michael Lewis is the author of the bestsellers Liar's Poker and The New New Thing. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife, Tabitha Soren, and their two daughters.
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.
Lewis was in the room with the A's top management as they spent the summer of 2002 adding and subtracting players and he provides outstanding play-by-play. In the June player draft, Beane acquired nearly every prospect he coveted (few of whom were coveted by other teams) and at the July trading deadline he engaged in a tense battle of nerves to acquire a lefty reliever. Besides being one of the most insider accounts ever written about baseball, Moneyball is populated with fascinating characters. We meet Jeremy Brown, an overweight college catcher who most teams project to be a 15th round draft pick (Beane takes him in the first). Sidearm pitcher Chad Bradford is plucked from the White Sox triple-A club to be a key set-up man and catcher Scott Hatteberg is rebuilt as a first baseman. But the most interesting character is Beane himself. A speedy athletic can't-miss prospect who somehow missed, Beane reinvents himself as a front-office guru, relying on players completely unlike, say, Billy Beane. Lewis, one of the top nonfiction writers of his era (Liar's Poker, The New New Thing), offers highly accessible explanations of baseball stats and his roadmap of Beane's economic approach makes Moneyball an appealing reading experience for business people and sports fans alike.
上一周朋友推荐一本名叫《魔球》的书,被书名的魔幻奇妙所吸引。于是在一周内用零散的时间读完,大概花了8、9个小时。 为什么推荐这本书呢?作者用独特的文笔来书写棒球,实则在说棒球也在点滴参透投资、管理、博弈,甚至当下关注的大数据。惊叹于作者的万物归一,抓住主旋律来...
评分最近从朋友处得知《点球成金》(Moneyball)的简体中文译本已出版上市。起初,自己对国内有人愿意翻译并出版这本以棒球为主题的专著感到非常惊讶。毕竟棒球在国内仍属于非常小众的运动。等拿到手后,方才明白出版方对此书的市场定位:一本经营管理类的畅销书。作者迈克尔•刘...
评分窮人的人生中. 總充滿著各種令人難堪的取捨. 而成功的竅門在於: 清楚知道你捨了什麼. 取了什麼..... 是啊. 就如窮人在現實世界中扭轉劣勢之道. 這本書講的就是 "一個沒錢的球隊. 為何能贏?". 它如何透過理性分析. 找出球賽中別人注意不到的效率. 然後用之而取勝. 職業球賽的競...
评分上一周朋友推荐一本名叫《魔球》的书,被书名的魔幻奇妙所吸引。于是在一周内用零散的时间读完,大概花了8、9个小时。 为什么推荐这本书呢?作者用独特的文笔来书写棒球,实则在说棒球也在点滴参透投资、管理、博弈,甚至当下关注的大数据。惊叹于作者的万物归一,抓住主旋律来...
Great story, better than the movie.
评分比电影好看太多!
评分趣味横生,虽然还是大空头比较直白。即使是基于主观和经验的策略有了冷静的统计也会变得更加可靠。
评分Search for undervalued ball players the same way undervalued stocks are sought; statistics is the tool;it is fun to see the underdog win.
评分有些baseball的术语不大懂,不过不影响理解。建模我很喜欢,也挺高兴看到这种不局限于wall st.里的广泛应用。Billy Beane是个聪明人。
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