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16. Did Michael Lewis Just Get Lucky with “Moneyball”?

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The Importance of Plate Discipline

Billy Bean and Paul D. Podesta had their own idea about where to find future Major League Baseball players. Billy flirted with the idea of firing all the scouts and just drafting the kids straight from Paul's laptop. They went looking for CEOs who were sort of oddly misshapen in the same way their baseball players were because they figured if that person was good at running a company, not because they looked the part.

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