Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be "the most influential book on sports ever written" (People), but "you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it" (Janet Maslin, New York Times).One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Review Best Book of the 21st Century (So Far), Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, Michael Lewis, 9780393324815
Moneyball (film)
Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical sports drama film directed by Bennett Miller and adapted by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It stars Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright and Chris Pratt. The film is based on the 2003 book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane's attempts to assemble a competitive team with half as much money as his rivals. Moneyball follows Beane and his deputy Peter Brand scout the major leagues for undervalued talent by taking a sophisticated sabermetric approach to scouting and analyzing players, triggering skepticism and resentment within the baseball community.
Moneyball: the art of winning an unfair game ; [with a new afterword]
Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and p…
Skin in the game: hidden asymmetries in daily life
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Black…
The Real Money In Modern ‘Journalism’ Now Involves Filling The Internet With ‘AI’-Generated Garbage
Last year both Gannett and Sports Illustrated were caught creating fake, “AI” generated journalists to create fake, plagiarism and mistake-prone “journalism.” In both instances …
Introducing DAVIES: A framework for Identifying Talent Across the Globe — American Soccer Analysis
In the world of sports, the search for an all-encompassing player evaluation metric is never-ending. Baseball was the first to develop its metric with Wins Above Replacement. Basketball followed suit with Player Efficiency Rating, and Hockey WAR has come into the fold within the past year. The US So
Home Field Advantage — Oakland Public Library
Home Field Advantage — Brekke-Miesner, Paul — In Home Field Advantage, historian Paul Brekke-Miesner examines why one relatively small American city produced not only an amazing number of professional athletes but individuals who changed the landscape of sports in America.--back cover.
Things You Lose - The Forge Literary Magazine
Things You Lose, a short fiction by Kelli Dianne Rule
In This Economy? by Kyla Scanlon: 9780593727874 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The book Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) hailed as “essential reading” for anyone who wants to “make informed decisions” and “have a basic understanding...
The World Series Was Electric — So Was Bluesky - Bluesky
“How can you not be romantic about baseball?” — Moneyball 2011
Writings and rehearsals by Nathan Schneider
Welcome. I’m a professor of media studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where I direct the Media Economies Design Lab and teach and learn from our students. I’ve written a book each on online democracy, cooperative enterprise, the Occupy movement, and God, and I’ve edited ones about solidarity economies, crypto, and co-ops. Reporting articles for both magazines and academic journals keeps my notebooks filled. Working with others to build a democratic economy keeps me accountable.
Reading, and Understanding Media
A guidebook, and poetry more than prose, Marshall McLuhan's 1964 work remains one of our best resources for exploring the nature and effects of new media. It's not an easy read, so I'm going to help.
The Score (book)
The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else's Game is a book by C. Thi Nguyen.
The Stuff That Makes the World Go Round (Published 1990)
THE PRIZE The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. By Daniel Yergin. Illustrated. 910 pp. New York: Simon & Schuster. $24.95.
Michael Harriot (@michaelharriot.bsky.social)
Journalist, writer, former member of the Six Heartbeats. Championship-level spades player. ContrabandCamp.com founder. Author of NY Times bestseller: Black AF History: The Unwhitewashed Story of America.
Art is my sport. I’ve been competing since 1984. 444 pages of my Paper Stage art club journal have made it to home team supporters. Today’s swing at the bat is @sweetbee.vip as a warrior because I want to contribute to her brainstorming team and just get out there, give 110% Bee’s be the big leagues
