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The Dugout: Oakland Athletics Spring Training 2010

The AL West continues to prove itself a bizarre and uninhabitable place as the Dugout's 2010 Spring Training event skips Oakland completely and heads straight into Hollywood. Billy Beane and the book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, or How I Learned to Stop Working Out and Love the Balm" are being made into a...

Jonah Hill to Play Paul DePodesta in Moneyball Movie

The Academy Awards were last night, and it was a good night for the movie The Blind Side as Sandra Bullock won the Best Actress award for her portrayal of Leigh Anne Tuohy. Of course, the movie was based on the Michael Lewis book of the same name, and now we have some news on the latest Michael Lewis book that will soon be...

Moneyball Movie Is Back On With a New Director

It's starting to look as though the story behind the movie version of Michael Lewis' book Moneyball could end up being more interesting than the movie itself. The movie is based on Lewis' book about Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and his rebuilding of the Athletics organization using statistical data. The...

Is New Math Coming to NCAA Football?

We could sure use it. There's an intriguing article at the numbers-heavy "Football Outsiders" website talking about applying the standardized statistical principles that are now accepted and commonplace in both baseball --remember Moneyball? And the SABR crew? -- and professional football.College football is sort of that...

Nick Swisher Learned Moneyball From Himself

Nick Swisher's on-base percentage is a robust .470 in 32 plate appearances in 2008, which is well above Swisher's career OBP of .381 but which is also a pretty good sign that the White Sox are going to get the expected amount of value out of the Swisher trade. And now that I've officially lost you with numbers in my first...

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05/31/12 Stats and strategy not just for Moneyball Source: Globe and Mail Moneyball , the 2011 Brad Pitt movie, tells the story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane who, with a low budget for salaries, turned baseball upside-down by analyzing data to identify players who could help his team without breaking the bank.
05/27/12 STAGE TUBE: Philip Seymour Hoffman Talks DEATH OF A... Source: Broadway World Philip Seymour Hoffman returns to Broadway for the first time since his critically acclaimed, Tony-nominated performance in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night in 2003.
05/24/12 Brad Pitt's Expensive Shades (Photo) Sama Eyewear... Source: National Ledger Brad Pitt wore a pair of $1,250 sunglasses at the premiere 'Killing Them Softly' on Tuesday (22.05.12). The hunky actor teamed the aviator-style shades made of 100 percent titanium - from Sama Eyewear - with a tuxedo at the event at the Cannes Film Festival.
05/24/12 Producing more, Brad Pitt is 'Killing Them Softly' Source: Broadcast Newsroom CANNES, France (AP) ' Brad Pitt is making the movie star thing look darn easy.
05/24/12 Why Is Brad Pitt Acting Less? Source: GeekSugar As of recently, Brad Pitt has starred in hits like Inglourious Basterds , The Tree of Life and Moneyball , which have been some of the most successful films on his rÃ©sumÃ©.

Background on Moneyball

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (ISBN 0-393-05765-8) is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane.

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