Ritter (New York Times Book Review)Įbullient, invigorating. Mark Gerson (Weekly Standard)īy playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years. It may be the best business book anyone has written. Moneyball is the best business book Lewis has written. You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of thoughts about it. Lewis has hit another one out of the park. If you're a baseball fan, Moneyball is a must. The best book of the year, already feels like the most influential book on sports ever written. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge-insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball.
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