“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The old scouts are like a Greek chorus; it is their job to underscore the eternal themes of baseball. The eternal themes… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“It was as if this baseball coach had reached inside me, found a rusty switch marked: 'turn on before attempting use' -… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Years later he would say that when he'd decided to become a professional baseball player, it was the only time he'd done… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“worth. A baseball team, of all things, was at the center of a story about the possibilities—and the limits—of reason in human… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“if gross miscalculations of a person’s value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel -… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Baseball—of all things—was an example of how an unscientific culture responds, or fails to respond, to the scientific method. As” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There are several insights at the heart of the A's system that I think are wonderful for baseball. One, that it's a… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“You saw someone who reminded you of you, and then you looked for the reasons why you liked him. The” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“At other places management says, ‘Well, gee, fellas, do we really want to bet the ranch on this deal?’ Lewie was not only willing… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“BILLY WOULD SAY later that his wife left him because she was unnerved by his intensity—that she could even see it in his hands… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The great thing about baseball players, from the point of view of personal hygiene, is how seldom they break a sweat.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
A banking system is an act of faith: it survives only for as long as people believe it will. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“No longer were the prices of ordinary mortgage bonds allowed to roam inefficiently, for they were now linked to the CMO market, in much… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?” says one trader still at Salomon. “That’s easy. Strauss wouldn’t stoop to use the men’s room on the… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“The only inexplicable aspect of the process was that economic theory (which is, after all, what economics students were supposed to know) served almost… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
