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Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game is a unique book that revolves around the success of the Oakland Athletics and discusses sports and its management. Summary Of The Book Written by Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game was published in 2003. The author talks about the success of Oakland Athletics and explores how one of the poorest baseball teams managed to reach the pinnacle of success under the guidance of their General Manager Billy Beane. It reveals how the fortunes for this baseball team took unexpected turnarounds in Major League Baseball in the US. The book finds takers in sports as well as management, as it discusses the role of management. It explores the strategies and tactics used by Billy Beane to find out the secret of success. He changed the way the team used to play and ensured that it started reinventing itself. Beane did not use the conventional ways used by classic baseball coaches as he considered them flawed. On the contrary, he used sabermetrics for his team. He used methods that he had acquired from geek statisticians and college professors. Sabermetrics involves specially analyzing the baseball statistics to propel the team to break records. He looked for specific attributes in a potential player and chose the most unconventional players for his team. The story relates how Beane’s methods become popular and looking at the success of his team, even others started following him. This forced Beane to look for newer strategies and unexplored tactics to ensure that his team kept on winning. Beane passed on the message that a winning baseball team has to be made and not bought. It is believed that rich teams have better chances of winning as more money is spent on their talent as compared to the poorer teams. However, the Oakland Athletics, under the leadership of Beane, changed that perception and showed that a team can become a major league team irrespective of having a minor league payroll. It explores the ruthless perfection required in professional sports. The story is a fantastic combination of entertainment, ego, science, and money professional sports. Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair Game was adapted into a film with Brad Pitt in the lead role. Moreover, experts have used it for management studies highlighting how to break conventional ways to win. About Michael Lewis Michael Lewis is a bestselling American author famously known for his non-fictional works. Lewis’ other famous books are Liar's Poker, The Real Price of Everything: Rediscovering the Six Classics of Economics, Pacific Rift, Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, The Money Culture, Big Short, and Panic!: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity. Born on 15th October 1960, he graduated in Art History from Princeton University. In 1985, he completed his MA in Economics from the London School of Economics. He started his career with Salomon Brothers but soon resigned to write his first book Liar’s Poker and from then on, he became a financial journalist. He also writes a column for Bloomberg News and is a contributing editor for Vanity Fair. He is married to Tabitha Soren and they live in Berkeley, California, with their two daughters and son.