Moneyball--#36 finished

I am a big baseball fan and finally gotten around to reading this book.  I have seen in referenced and knew the basic gist of the book.  I have also seen the movie--much later after it came out & then on basic cable.  I enjoyed the movie and almost didn't buy this book for the 50 cents when I saw it at a library sale.  I am glad that I bought it.  I have read a couple other books by Michael Lewis and enjoy his writing as well as his research he brings to his topics.  This is a good read from when major league front offices were slowly moving from old school scouts to the new wave of ivy league data crunchers.  We are still in this kind of new wave with it seems like new data coming out every year--I am guessing teams probably have more in depth data but keeping that from the public.  I enjoyed how he went into more details about certain players explaining why they were overlooked by other teams and what Beane and A's saw in them.  A really good read.

There are already 3 copies in PBS system.  I am probably just going to keep the book since it is an important book--not just sport book from our times.