Lewis is the master of explaining complex and insider ideas to a layperson. Lewis was given incredible access behind the scenes of the A’s management team as they prepared for a draft and throughout the 2002 season as Beane wheeled and dealed his way to improving his team at every turn.īeane is a fascinating character – charismatic but ruthless, a baseball insider who thinks like an outsider, a man obsessed with his team who refuses to watch the team he runs actually play a game.
He found a much bigger and more fascinating story about a sub-culture of baseball nerds both inside, but mostly outside, the sport who were determined to see the game as it really was.Īt the heart of the book is Billy Beane, a former player who never fulfilled what others believed was his potential. Lewis set out to answer the question of why the Oakland A’s consistently outperformed teams with much higher budgets. 15 years since it was first published, Moneyball is still synonymous with the ever-growing movement to use big data to improve the performance of professional sports teams.
‘Moneyball’ might be the most influential sports books of the last 20 years.
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