While we’re talking about baseball ( A Word for Roger Maris, and About Baseball ), here is something on the subject of the fascinating book Moneyball , Billy Beane, the manager of the Oakland A’s who used sabremetric insights to win World Series though he didn’t have nearly as much money as teams like the Yankees: Game’s shifting strategies leaves Beane, sage of Moneyball , behind . I suppose it’s a life lesson: the rewards of insight last only till other people realize you’re right.
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