Often times baseball for me is an escape from reality. When the world news is especially grim, I take great comfort in baseball. As Chief Justice Earl Warren put it, “I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.” On that note, let us continue our trip down memory lane to consider the best first baseman in Oakland’s history.
There were a few inaccuracies in taking Moneyball from a book to a movie, but one thing the movie got right was Scott Hatteberg‘s move from catcher to first base.