It's a thrilling romance based on a true story, arising from a simple obvious observation: some baseball executives seemed to be much better than others at getting wins out of dollars. And from the underlying question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? The famous writer, Michael Lewis, tells the fascinating story of the Athletics, whose front office have highly contribuited to, by means of a systematic scientific investigation of their sport and their ihnerent statistics, used (but sometimes abused) in a more efficient and rational way. There are many amazing and intriguing anectodes, having also given birth to the omonymous film, which portray the baseball world as an old style setting, like the medecine world of the ninenteen century, in which most of the Talent Scouts and the General Managers still base their decisions on gut feelings rather on the correct study and in-depth interpretation of the pure available statistics. From this emerges a clash between reason and baseball, as if they were utterly antythetic. And for the pundits, one of the main misunderstandings is represented by this: "Over the long haul it's a mistake to give away outs for bases".
