Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Oct 06 '05
Pros: Great access and compelling story
Cons: Possibly only for baseball fans
Summary: I have plenty of fond memories as a kid. I enjoyed playing with my friends, watching cartoons on Saturday morning before my parents woke up and reading major league box scores. Which one of those doesn’t fit? Yea, the box scores. Believe it or not, I ...
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Jan 03 '12
Pros: An insightfull look how a sports team is run
Cons: A strange defense by Lewis when criticized
Summary: Moneyball is a book written about the process to build the rosterof the Oakland Athletics baseball club, headed by general managerBilly Beane. The book also has some history of how baseball statistics are viewed in terms of evaluating ...
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Sep 01 '10
Pros: Interesting account of front office life and statistics
Cons: Wanders and jumps around too much
Summary: The Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules. So goes the saying that is one of the more prominent laws of Murphy. In the world of Major League Baseball, this is divine law, carved in stone with bolts of lightning from on high. Or at least Major ...
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Nov 27 '08
Pros: Fascinating inside look at how baseball really works.
Cons: Nothing major.
Summary: "Moneyball" jumped on to some best-seller lists when it was released in the summer of 2003. That was rather surprising for a baseball book that has little to do with how the game is played on the field. But maybe ...
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Oct 21 '06
Pros: Very insightful inside view of a small-market baseball teams struggle to compete
Cons: Many players mentioned didn't pan out for the A's, and their payroll expanded
Summary: I first began reading Michael Lewis' works in college. For a Business Perspectives class my sophomore year, I read “Liar’s Poker,” the semi-autobiographical look at the crazy 1980’s bond market. From this work, I grew very fond of Lewis insightful and ...
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Sep 18 '06
Pros: Excellently written, easy to read, and enjoyable.
Cons: The idea of a baseball book might put off some who should read it.
Summary: On the surface, Moneyball is a study in how a baseball team with a small budget can manage to compete with teams who spend several times as much. Actually, it is about much more. Moneyball follows Billy Beane and the Oakland A's through a season to ...
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Apr 20 '06
Pros: Incredible story, makes you look at the game differently
Cons: Only for fans of the game, others will not appreciate it
Summary: If you love baseball, you will love this book. I read this book cover to cover in one sitting. It a fast read, and will change the way you look at the game. Moneyball looks at Oakland A GM Billy bean and how he took his team into the playoffs year in and ...
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Jun 14 '05
Pros: Original thinking, incorporating modern baseball sabermetrics with sound market strategy
Cons: Some fossilized die hard "old school" thinkers can't approach this with an open mind.
Summary: The 2003 major league baseball season culminated in October with arguably the most exciting playoffs in history, and with one of baseball’s “David’s” defeating “Goliath” when the low budget Florida Marlins overcame the storied New ...
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Feb 07 '05
Pros: addictive, well-written, rereadable, good for statheads
Cons: a little too heavy on Beane praise
Summary: You read right--fantasy baseball. Though Michael Lewis is writing about a real GM and a real team faced with real monetary constraints, no book has helped me more in fantasy baseball leagues than Moneyball. It's principles can be applied to dominate ...
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Aug 25 '04
Pros: Engrossing; I couldn't put it down.
Cons: Some may feel the "hero" is portrayed as conniving and egotistical.
Summary: As a lifelong baseball fan and die-hard Oakland A's fan, there was no way I was not going to read Michael Lewis' Moneyball, which takes us behind the scenes of a major league baseball front office. The author follows A's General Manager Billy ...
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Jul 11 '04
Pros: Offers insight into an new innovative way of looking at baseball managing and scouting.
Cons: There are still some unanswered questions that may come up...
Summary: As a baseball fan, more specifically a Seattle Mariners fan, the past few years have been filled with grief and bitterness. A miraculously 116-game season was immediately followed by two relatively mediocre 93-win seasons in which the Oakland Athletics ...
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Nov 23 '03
Pros: Entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the back office of a ballclub
Cons: A little thin for sabermetricians
Summary: When I say "In Awe of Billy Beane" I'm referring more to the author than to me. This is basically a biography of a few years of Beane's life, and it is highly entertaining. It provides a nice glimpse of how the back office works at a major league ...
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Nov 22 '03
Pros: Great inside look at a baseball General Manager in action
Cons: None
Summary: Michael Lewis has come up with a fascinating take on how to put a winning baseball team together. He uses Billy Beane, General Manager of the Oakland A's, as the best example of a modern manager whose financial resources don't permit him to play with ...
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Sep 16 '03
Pros: great book for all, not just ball fans. Very entertaining writing style.
Cons: If you know absolutely nothing about baseball, this book might bore you.
Summary: When I saw Moneyball on the shelves I knew nothing about it other than it had something to do with baseball. But I had read Lewis' Liars' Poker many years ago, and loved it, so I decided I should give Moneyball a read. I enjoy baseball, and used to go ...
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Aug 30 '03
Pros: the depth, the access, a baseball fan's dream come true
Cons: none
Summary: It's a question that seemingly had simple answers. In the world of professional baseball, how did t ...
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