Moneyball

My Non-Fiction choice was the book Moneyball written by Michael Lewis. Moneyball is a biography of Oakland Athletics' G.M. Billy Beane. Beane grew up in Southern California under the impression that he would definitely be going to play professional baseball considering that he had two great chances to enrich his baseball career, no question that he was a first round talent in the upcoming MLB amateur draft, but he wasn't sold as his other option was for him to go to Stanford University on a joint scholarship where he would be playing football as well as baseball. The most intriguing part of the book was when Billy realized that after spending about ten years in the big leagues he went into Sandy Alderson's office (Oakland A's G.M.) and requested to become an advanced scout in the Oakland system. What Beane did really resonates with me, though I am not saying that I am near as good as he was but I feel the way that he did right now. I like to play baseball somewhat but I know that my dream job would be being able to take over a team and be the General Manager of any team and after reading Moneyball I really can relate with Billy Beane and before reading I wasn't a huge fan of Billy Beane, but what he has done on one of the smallest payrolls in Major League Baseball.