Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game.

LEWIS, Michael.

Item Number: 139909

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

First edition of this work, basis for the 2011 film directed by Bennett Miller starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill. Octavo, original boards. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “For Steve Humon! Who has a son who love him, Michael Lewis.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by And Partners, NYC.

Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge―insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money. "This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame" (Forbes).