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Left to right, Billy Beane, Brad Pitt, and Jonah Hill, share a light moment as they answer questions about the new movie "Moneyball" at the O.co Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. on Monday, Sept. 19 ...
Billy Beane’s potential deal to buy a stake in the company that owns the Boston Red Sox would end his visionary reign at the Oakland Athletics — and could mark his exit from baseball entirely ...
Right now, you’d have to say it’s a toss-up as to which is the most surprising and confounding team in baseball – Buck Showalter’s Baltimore Orioles and their minus-39 run d… ...
He’s about to be immortalized on the big screen — by Brad Pitt, no less — but Billy Beane has said barely a word about it. Few interviews. No talk radio. And forget “Entertainment Tonight ...
In the Oscar-nominated film Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, a baseball manager obsessed with turning his cash-strapped team into a contender.Pitt says that drive is what attracted him to ...
While in Phoenix on a spring swing, I stopped by an Oakland Athletics scrimmage to grab an Answer Man session with GM Billy Beane. His teams have averaged 87 victories a year — despite a ...
Billy Beane in 2006, when Moneyball had not been fully poached. (Jed Jacobsohn/Getty Images) By Dave Sheinin. MESA, Ariz. — Even as he began constructing division-winning teams in Oakland in the ...
"Moneyball" star Billy Beane said Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger's lessons apply to baseball. The ex-Oakland Athletics manager excelled at finding undervalued players and besting richer teams.
In "Moneyball," Billy Beane's implementation of sabermetrics into the Oakland Athletics' new scouting philosophy was received with much tension from the team's staff.
While Moneyball focuses mainly on true events, some elements of the actual story are omitted to bolster Billy Beane's narrative.The film emphasizes the genius of his actions and ability to ...
Not Billy Beane, silly, but John Schuerholz, longtime Atlanta Braves GM, whose biography, Built To Win, shared management philosophies that shaped his dynastic 1990s teams. OK, so Hawkins read ...