Moneyball
Michael Lewis
"One of the best baseball—and management—books out.... Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame."—Forbes 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 ...
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„Da gibt es eben dieses berühmte Buch auch verfilmt über Baseball, das heißt Moneyball und den Versuch, ein Baseballteam aufzubauen, nur anhand von harten Zahlenkriterien.“
Moneyball wird als weiteres Beispiel für Lewis' Kernthema genannt: die Mathematisierung und Quantifizierung von Bereichen, die traditionell auf Intuition basierten. Ijoma Mangold greift das Buch später wieder auf, um Lars Weisbrods eigenes Denken in Wahrscheinlichkeiten zu beschreiben.
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