"Moneyball" is a quest for something as elusive as the Holy Grail, something
that money apparently can't buy: the secret of success in baseball. The logical
places to look would be the giant offices of major league teams and the dugouts.
But the real jackpot is a cache of numbers collected over the years by a strange
brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians,
Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors.
In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the
unexpected, Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also
sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: