![]() According to Republic World, the film tells the story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics, who put together an American League record 20-game winning streak. ![]() ![]() Goals from Said Benrahma and Michail Antonio kept West Ham’s dreams of a first trophy in 43 years alive after a 2-1 victory in the first leg of the Europa Conference. When the film 'Moneyball' came out in 2011, moviegoers witnessed the true story of one of the greatest sports underdog narratives in recent memory. Moneyball is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. 2 days ago &0183 &32 West Ham 2 AZ Alkmaar 1. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? With these words Michael Lewis launches us into the funniest, smartest, and most contrarian book since, well, since Liar's Poker. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it, before I had a story to fall in love with. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manager, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" (Weekly Standard). ![]() Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. ![]()
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