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In his front-office career, Beane has applied statistical analysis (known as sabermetrics) to baseball, which has led teams to reconsider how they evaluate players. He is the subject of Michael Lewis 's 2003 book on baseball economics, Moneyball , which was made into a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt as Beane.
Domenico Tedesco (Italian pronunciation: [doˈmeːniko teˈdesko]; [1] [2] born 12 September 1985) is an Italian-German football manager who is currently the head coach of the Belgium national team. In 2017, he took over as manager of Schalke 04 and guided them to a second place finish in the Bundesliga in his debut season.
The central premise of Moneyball is that the collective wisdom of baseball insiders (including players, managers, coaches, scouts, and the front office) over the past century is outdated, subjective, and often flawed, and that the statistics traditionally used to gauge players, such as stolen bases, runs batted in, and batting average, are relics of a 19th-century view of the game. [1]
The film is based on the 2003 nonfiction book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis. The book is an account of the Oakland Athletics baseball team's 2002 season and their general manager Billy Beane 's attempts to assemble a competitive team with half (or even a third) as much money as his rivals.
Arm issues cut short his playing career, but he became one of the most successful general managers in major-league history and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2011.
Fair Game is a 2010 biographical political drama film directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. [4] It is based on Valerie Plame's 2007 memoir Fair Game [4] and Joseph C. Wilson's 2004 memoir The Politics of Truth. [5] Watts stars as Plame and Penn as her husband, Joseph C. Wilson. [4]
appeared in Sports Story Magazine in 1931, in 2012 John Dinan's Sports in the Pulp Magazines called it "timeless". [12]: 155 According to Ryan K. Anderson in Upon Further Review: Sports in American Literature, "By the 1940s, Tunis enjoyed a career based on the practice of criticizing those aspects of American culture that others took lightly"."
“The Long Game” is based on the true story of five Mexican American high school students who were banned from playing golf at an all-white Texas country club in the 1950s.