"Moneyball" by Michael Lewis

I began reading this book on the plane and just recently finished. Moneyball is about the Oakland Athletic's, a baseball team in the MLB and how they mysteriously succeeded from becoming the worst, poorest baseball team in MLB. The main character, Billy Beane, the general manager on the Oakland A's finds a way to outsmart the richer teams by signing undervalued players and rookies. Since most of the players were not very good, they tried to play the "cheap way" of baseball. By trying to walk balls and not hit. The book is mainly about the financial side of baseball and how everything is depended on if you have more money. Moneyball shows the secret success to baseball and it also has a lot to do with baseball knowledge. Although there were many hardships, in the end the A's ended up winning the 2002 World Series. So, I would only advice it if you understand baseball or watch it. Recently, a movie was made out of it with Brad Pitt.