Moneyball is a quest for something seeing that elusive while the ULTIMATE GOAL, something that cash apparently can’t purchase: the secret of achievement in baseball. The logical areas to look will be the huge offices of major league teams and the dugouts. But the real jackpot is definitely a cache of quantities collected over time by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software designers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, attorneys, and physics professors.

In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions in to the unexpected, Lewis displays us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and amusing morality story: A LOT OF MONEY, like Goliath, is certainly always supposed to win . how can we not cheer for David?