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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...

Padres GM Kevin Towers Marches On

SAN DIEGO -- If there were any doubts that Kevin Towers was a baseball lifer, they were answered on his wedding day.Just before exchanging vows with his wife in December 1996, the Padres general manager exchanged players with Tigers GM Randy Smith, a member of his wedding party."Any time you get baseball people together,...

10 Ways to Improve Moneyball

Although I have been hearing for a while that the best-selling book Moneyball" was going to be made into a movie, I never really believed it until seeing on Tuesday that they continue to add actors. I had always assumed that, somewhere along the line, some studio executive would look at that book and say "Uh, that doesn't...

'Moneyball' Cast Coming Together

Michael Lewis' book about Billy Beane's strategy in making a small-market team successful in Major League Baseball, "Moneyball," is going to be made into a feature-length movie. Shooting isn't set to begin until June, but many of the key players are being put in place. Brad Pitt is going to play Oakland A's general manager...

Left on Base: Mark McGwire Is So Busted, More Schilling and Radomski

Left on Base is MLB FanHouse's link dump.* There's been plenty of talk about Mark McGwire lately, what with the Hall of Fame vote last week, and his long lost (estranged?) brother seems ready to cash in on it. From Deadspin comes the news that Jay McGwire has been shopping a tell-all book that will detail, among other...

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05/04/12 Rethinking America's Pastime: The Paul DePodesta Story Source: The Harvard Crimson - Harvard Univ - Cambridge MA He has been ridiculed by some who see him as a geeky introvert, lauded by others who deem him an ingenious visionary.
04/09/12 Informatica World 2012 to Showcase How Companies Can... Source: TMCnet Abbasi and DePodesta's keynotes will take placeon the first day of the conference, which will be held May 15-18,2012 at the ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas.
03/27/12 Why Youth Has An Advantage In Innovation & Why You... Source: The Business Insider These two scenes from Moneyball illustrate something that may be essential to modern business: the incredible value of youth and innovative thinking relative to traditional experience.