Michael Lewis is an American non-fiction author that was responsible for writing which sports novel published in 2003 that told the story of the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its new approach to gaining a competitive edge?
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Michael Lewis Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15, 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include "Liar's Poker" (1989), "The New New Thing" (2000), "Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game" (2003), "" (2006), "Panic" (2008), " Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood" (2009), "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" (2010), "" (2011) and "Flash Boys" (2014). He has also been a contributing editor to "Vanity Fair" since 2009. His most recent book is called "The Undoing Project".
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Moneyball Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's analytical, evidence-based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite Oakland's disadvantaged revenue situation. A film based on the book starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill was released in 2011.
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Darwin's Children Darwin's Children is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear published in 2003. It is a sequel to his 1999 novel "Darwin's Radio".
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As Cool as I Am As Cool As I Am is a 2003 coming of age novel by American author Pete Fromm.
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Keesha's House Keesha's House is a 2003 award winning debut young adult verse novel by American author Helen Frost. The book's story is told through multiple poems and concerns a group of teenagers that are all drawn to the house of the title character Keesha due to serious issues in their personal lives.
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Brent Jordan Brent Kenton Jordan (born August 15, 1963 in Santa Ana Heights, California) is an American author, best known for writing a book about his 20 years working as a bouncer at such clubs as Cheetah's Topless Club in Las Vegas.
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Edward P. Jones Edward Paul Jones (born October 5, 1950) is an American novelist and short story writer. His 2003 novel "The Known World" received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
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Michael Sedge Michael H. Sedge is an American journalist, author, marketing specialist, lecturer and entrepreneur. He founded the marketing company Strawberry Media, the publishing firm The Sedge Group, and co-founded the U.S. small business, Michael-Bruno, LLC, which offers architectural design, engineering services, and construction management to the U.S. government in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. His latest non-fiction work "The Lost Ships of Pisa" won the President of the Italian Republic's Book of the Year Award for a Foreign Author.
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Michael Cunningham Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is a U.S. novelist and screenwriter. He is best known for his 1998 novel "The Hours", which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999. Cunningham is a senior lecturer of creative writing at Yale University.
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Will Lewis (American football) William L. Lewis (born January 16, 1958) is an American football executive and former cornerback. Lewis was hired by the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League on May 16, 2013.
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Derrick Goold Derrick Goold (born July 21, 1975 in Elgin, Illinois) is an American author and award-winning sportswriter best known for his work for the "St. Louis Post-Dispatch". Goold has been honored for feature writing and investigative reporting for his work covering baseball, hockey and college athletics.
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The Camel Club (novel) The Camel Club is a crime novel by American writer David Baldacci. This is the first book to feature the Camel Club, a small group of Washington, D.C. civilian misfits led by "Oliver Stone", a former CIA trained assassin. The book was initially published on October 25, 2005 by Grand Central Publishing.
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For Love of the Game For Love of the Game is a novel by American author Michael Shaara, published posthumously in 1991. The book tells the story of fictional baseball great Billy Chapel, thirty-seven years old and nearing the end of his career.
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Private Peaceful Private Peaceful is a novel for older children by Michael Morpurgo, first published in 2003. Although this novel is for older children, it is also regarded as a great book for young adults. It is about a soldier called Thomas "Tommo" Peaceful, who is looking back on his life from the trenches of World War I in France. Structurally, each chapter of the book brings the reader closer to the present until the story turns to present tense. The story especially underlines the senselessness of war and ineptitude of the commanding officer.
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Animorphs Animorphs is a science fantasy series of young adult books written by Katherine Applegate and her husband Michael Grant, writing together under the name K. A. Applegate, and published by Scholastic. It is told in first person, with all six main characters taking turns narrating the books through their own perspectives. Horror, war, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom and growing up are the core themes of the series.
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The Rule of Four The Rule of Four is a novel written by the American authors Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason, and published in 2004. Caldwell, a Princeton University graduate, and Thomason, a Harvard College graduate, are childhood friends who wrote the book after their graduations.
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Politics (novel) Politics is a 2003 novel by Adam Thirlwell about a father-daughter relationship and about a ménage à trois which includes said daughter and two of her friends. We are informed by the narrator that the novel is about "goodness".
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Travel Team Travel Team is a young adult novel by columnist Mike Lupica about a boy named Danny Walker who is cut from his travel basketball team because of his short stature, so his father Richie responds by forming a new travel team made up of players who were cut or did not try out. The novel was a children's chapter book New York Times best seller for 3 months, and was based in part on Lupica's experience when his son was cut from a basketball team.
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Ralph Cindrich Ralph Edward Cindrich (born October 29, 1949 in Washington, PA) is a sports agent and former NFL player. A linebacker for the New England Patriots (1972), the Houston Oilers (1973, 1974, 1975) and the Denver Broncos (1974), Cindrich graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1972 and South Texas College of Law in 1978. During his more than three-plus decades as an NFL agent, he has represented stars such as James Farrior, Bruce Gradkowski, Tarik Glenn, Jeff Blake, Brian Griese, Al Toon, Dermontti Dawson, and Will Wolford among others. As an agent, Cindrich also negotiated one of the landmark contracts in sports history, one that forever altered the salary hierarchy in the NFL, and would be prominently featured in Michael Lewis' book "".
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Jim Lewis (novelist) Jim Lewis (born 1963, in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American novelist. Soon after he was born, his family moved to New York; there, and in London, he was raised. He received a degree in philosophy from Brown University in 1984, and an M.A. in the same subject from Columbia University, before deciding to leave academia.
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Mike Mohler Michael Ross Mohler (born July 26, 1968) is an American former Major League Baseball player. A pitcher, Mohler played for the Oakland Athletics, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, and Arizona Diamondbacks from 1993 to 2001. Attended East Ascension High School and Nicholls State University, playing on both baseball teams.
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The Boys on the Rock The Boys on the Rock is a short debut novel by John Fox which details the coming out and falling in love of a gay sixteen-year-old swimmer, "nomine" Billy Connors, who narrates the story in the first person. It is notable as perhaps the first novel ever to blend politics with the travails of a gay adolescent.