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Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Michael Lewis's Moneyball. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides.
The King of Hollywood. Filmmakers love Michael Lewis’s books—in the last ten years, three of them (The Blind Side, Moneyball, and The Big Short) have been made into successful, Academy Award-nominated films.
Moneyballing. It’s a rare author who coins a term that enters the language, and Michael Lewis is one of those rare authors. Since the publication of Moneyball, the term “moneyball” has been adopted to describe the practice of using statistics to seek out an edge in the baseball “market” by finding more efficient and effective ways of building a team.