Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball.
Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life
general manger, 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. 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
it-before 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 possibilities-his intimate and
original portraits of big league ballplayers are alone worth the
price of admission-but the real jackpot is a cache of
numbers-numbers -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 show-no, prove-is 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 to-and 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?
關於作者：
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.
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