Inside Baseball

The two men kept talking, sometimes about baseball, often not. Out of their conversations came Moneyball, the book, which has sold more than one million copies worldwide. Moneyball the movie, starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, is released in the UK on November 25. But ?Moneyball? is also a phenomenon, which after changing baseball is now sweeping almost all ballgames, from British soccer to Australian rules football. And it?s a phenomenon that reaches beyond sport. With hindsight, what Lewis captures in his book?the triumph of the highly educated over the lesser educated?is exactly what happened in the American economy.

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