Name: Moneyball
ISBN: 9780393057652

作者: [美] 迈克尔·刘易斯
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
副标题: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
出版年: 2003-05-10
页数: 304
定价: USD 24.95
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780393057652

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The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought.

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The Oakland Athletics have a secret: a winning baseball team is made, not bought.

I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. 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. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write itbefore I had a story to fall in love with. 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. 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. The logical places to look would be the front offices of major league teams, and the dugouts, perhaps even in the minds of the players themselves. Lewis mines all these possibilitieshis intimate and original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the price of admissionbut the real jackpot is a cache of numbersnumbers!collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers and physics professors.

What these geek numbers showno, proveis that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information has been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland Athletics.

Billy paid attention to those numbers with the second lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had toand this book records his astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. Moneyball is a roller coaster ride: before the 2002 season opens, Oakland must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players, is written off by just about everyone, and then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins.

In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win...how can we not cheer for David?

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迈克尔·刘易斯作者

作者简介 · · · · · ·

迈克尔•刘易斯 | Michael Lewis

生于1960年，先后毕业于普林斯顿大学和伦敦政治经济学院，曾效力华尔街著名投行所罗门兄弟公司，是目前全球最受欢迎的财经作家之一，二十多年来佳作频出，为读者奉献了多部经典：《说谎者的扑克牌》（Liar’s Poker）、《新新事物》（The New New Thing）、《点球成金》（Moneyball）、《弱点》（The Blind Side）、《大空头》（The Big Short）等。

他与家人现居加州伯克利。

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如果有人做出了某种你无法理解的举动，而你只是因为这种举动没有先例就对他大加嘲讽，这不仅仅是无知短视的表现，更会让你蒙受意想不到的损失。想象力匮乏的结果，便是市场的无效率。 (查看原文)

任平生 2赞 2013-12-24 20:37:04

—— 引自第101页
他们研究棒球比赛中的每一个元素，例如脚步移动速度的市场价格，或者大联盟普通球员与明星球员的本质差别 (查看原文)

mandark 1赞 2012-09-16 20:26:44

—— 引自第3页

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Stigrex 2009-05-24 13:51:29 早安財經文化有限公司2005版

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莱瑞 2010-09-30 11:53:42 W. W. Norton & Company2004版

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lioneleman 2012-12-10 09:44:46 W. W. Norton & Company2004版

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