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

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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The New Way of Thinking About Baseball

The book made a mockery of the management of every other baseball team. It wasn't that the Oakland A's had dreamed up all kinds of private information they were using to gain an edge. They were just reading stuff written by baseball intellectuals and using it. So what the book was saying was that the people running baseball teams didn't know what they were doing.

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