Explains how Billy Beene, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is using a new kind of thinking to build a successful and winning baseball team without spending enormous sums of money One of the best baseball-and management-books out.... Deserves a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame.-Forbes Preface
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The Curse of Talent
3(11)
How to Find A Ballplayer
14(29)
The Enlightenment
43(21)
Field of Ignorance
64(33)
The Jeremy Brown Blue Plate Special
97(22)
The Science of Winning An Unfair Game
119(19)
Giambi's Hole
138(24)
Scott Hatteberg, Pickin' Machine
162(26)
The Trading Desk
188(29)
Anatomy of An Undervalued Pitcher
217(27)
The Human Element
244(19)
The Speed of the Idea
263(18)
Epilogue The Badger
281(6)
Acknowledgments
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