Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The naked eye was an inadequate tool for learning what you needed to know to evaluate baseball players and baseball games. Think about it. One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one hit every two weeks. The difference between a good hitter and an average hitter is simply not visible-it is a matter of record
Michael LewisThe Red Sox are the local scapegoats. It's hard enough to play baseball without being the local scapegoat too.
Michael LewisThe sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.
Michael LewisI didn't think one day something would happen that would bring me back to Wall Street to write what is essentially a sequel.
Michael Lewisthe lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.
Michael Lewis