If you watched the movie, you learned that “Moneyball” is about how the A’s took a grouchy manager, and a GM who looks like Brad Pitt, and won 20 games in a row because they drafted some really good players a few years ago.
But in the book version that the movie inspired, Michael Lewis told the tale of how a shrewd organization, full of brains and short on funds, exploited undervalued commodities and overlooked opportunities, to maximize production.
I am working on a third version, told exclusively through interpretive dance, in which the main message is that I really can’t dance.