Any baseball fan worth his or her salt has read Moneyball by now. Michael Lewis' 2003 best seller about the Oakland Athletics is one of the great baseball books ever penned, a well-written, ...
Baseball has long been known as America’s pastime, but the sport didn’t reach that lofty position simply due to people’s love of either playing or watching the sport. Hollywood played a vital role in ...
Bennet Miller’s directorial, Moneyball (2011), is a movie that explores the real-life events surrounding the Oakland Atheltics’ distinct approach to building a competitive basketball team for the 2002 ...
Even before landing in theaters, "Moneyball" was a movie with at least one strike against it. Brad Pitt, left, and Jonah Hill star in 'Moneyball.' After all, a movie can boast a roster like Brad Pitt, ...
Directed by Bennett Miller, Moneyball is a 2011 American biographical film, featuring a script by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, adapted from a story by Stan Chervin. The movie is rooted in the ...
I’ve been thinking about something Ted Hope said in last week’s Sunday Times all week. In John Clark’s piece called “Survival Tips for the Aging Independent Filmmaker,” Mr. Hope said, “Ten of 15 years ...
I linked yesterday to an Entertainment Tonight video showing a few brief scenes from the upcoming Moneyball movie and opined that it didn’t exactly make me excited about the film, but today an ...
Moneyball seems to be a movie about the Oakland A's hiring baseball players when they didn't have a lot of money. Okay. It is that. But it's also a movie about a fundamental conflict in psychological ...
There’s an interesting observation in the book “Moneyball” about Paul DePodesta that I simply had to ask him about recently.
Former Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane is credited with popularizing the use of analytics in baseball when he guided the low-budget A’s to success in the early 2000s using the so-called ...
LOS ANGELES — In a film production office here, at least a couple of employees were still hanging around on Monday, hoping in vain to score with their troubled baseball movie "Moneyball." But they had ...