Any baseball fan worth his or her salt has read Moneyball by now. Michael Lewis' 2003 best seller about the Oakland Athletics is one of the great baseball books ever penned, a well-written, ...
Capturing an entire movement on-screen is hard work, and by distilling a major story down to a two hour movie, you can often compromise the smaller details. So how do you tell a complex story in a ...
'Inside baseball" has become a dismissive term for too much information. But in real baseball, the man with the most information wins a ring. Brad Pitt , the pride of Springfield (Mo.) Kickapoo High ...
Maybe you've heard about the movie, soon to be at a theater near you -- well, in two years. They're making a movie about Billy Beane and the book ''Moneyball,'' a terrific read by Michael Lewis. In ...
In Moneyball’s opening moments, the camera sees Billy Beane — portrayed by Brad Pitt — sitting alone in an empty, dark Oakland Coliseum. Via handheld radio, he’s listening to the team he acts as ...
In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” two teams – the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint – gather on a neighborhood field for a baseball game. The leaves are already starting to turn — “It’s getting late early,” as ...
Baseball season is underway, and that means that when the games aren't on, fans of America's pastime will be looking to baseball movies for a dramatized, stylized, and emotionally satisfying rendering ...
Dating back to its release in 2011, Moneyball has widely been considered one of the best sports movies of all time. Adapted from the 2003 Michael Lewis book by the same name, the film somehow managed ...
In Carson Lund’s “Eephus,” two teams — the Riverdogs and Adler’s Paint — gather on a neighborhood field for a baseball game. The leaves are already starting to turn — “It’s getting late early,” as ...