
Moneyball
Bennett Miller, 2011
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis, 2003
Moneyball is a movie directed by Bennett Miller in 2011 and based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis, first published in 2003. The movie features Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, Chris Pratt, Stephen Bishop, and others.
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Storyline
Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is hurt by the team’s loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 American League Division Series. During a scouting visit to the Cleveland Indians, Beane meets Peter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess player value.
Movie vs Book

Year
2011
Minutes
133
Movie Rate
7.60
Source: IMDb

Year
2003
Pages
317
Book Rate
8.50
S: Goodreads
Book
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Author: Michael Lewis
Country: USA
First published in: 2003
Length: 317 pages
Genre: Biography
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