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MONEY-BOSS PLAYER The hot
2003-04-28 12:04
MONEY-BOSS PLAYER The hot baseball book of the spring is clearly "Moneyball, The Art of Winning an Unfair Game," Michael Lewis' study of Billy Beane and the Oakland A's. Christian Ruzich, The Cub Reporter and Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus received reviewer's copies and are enjoying the book immensely, and quite frankly, I can't wait to get my hands on it too. The New York Times Magazine published an excerpt from the book last month, and Billy Beane comes across as a charming, slick, and danergous operator---like a shark from a David Mamet play. (Kevin Spacey should play him in the movie version). Joel Sherman has a column on the book today in the New York Post. Needless to say, former Oakland skipper, and current Mets manager Art Howe, who was famously at odds with Beane, is not portrayed in a favorable light. Howe refused to comment on the book, but as Sherman reports:
Considering the way the Mets played yesterday, Howe could have used cardboard cutouts of his players which may have at least cut down on all the errors.
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