![]() “At the opening of the 2002 season the richest team, the New York Yankees, had a payroll of $140m while the two poorest teams, the Oakland A’s and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, had payrolls less than a third of that, about $40m. The gap between rich and poor in baseball was far greater than in any other professional sport and widening rapidly. In his preface, Lewis wrote: “For more than a decade, the people who run professional baseball have argued that the game was ceasing to be an athletic competition and becoming a financial one. ![]() The Moneyball brand has become so pervasive that scarcely anyone questions the premise upon which Lewis’s book was based. The truth, though, is that without the fame that has attached itself to the Moneyball label, no one would be much interested in what became of the A’s 2002 draft class. And I definitely came to meeting through my husband, but after that, in my opinion, it has little to do with that.” ![]() Soren told Newsday: “I completely understand why the sports world associates this book with Moneyball. ![]() On 30 March in the New York Daily News, former Oakland executive and current Mets GM Sandy Alderson was referred to as “the Godfather of Moneyball”.ġ April saw the publication of Tabitha Soren’s Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream with then-and-now photographs of members of the Oakland A’s draft class of 2002, who were Moneyball’s primary focus. ![]()
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