Baseball season is underway, and that means that when the games aren't on, fans of America's pastime will be looking to baseball movies for a dramatized, stylized, and emotionally satisfying rendering ...
In the Oscar-nominated film Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, a baseball manager obsessed with turning his cash-strapped team into a contender. Pitt says that drive is what attracted him to the ...
Moneyball told the story of Billy Beane and how he revolutionized Major League Baseball by utilizing sabermetrics to scout players based on analytics rather than relying on "gut feelings." This story ...
It’s pretty hard to stay grounded when a major film is made about your life, harder still when a two-time winner of the Sexiest Man Alive award is cast to play you. But Billy Beane shows no signs of ...
Billy Beane wrote the book on being a general manager. Now bring on the video game. Yes, we understand Beane didn't actually write Moneyball. It just seemed like he did. But now he has signed on to ...