Written by Michael Lewis,Moneyball:The Art Of Winning An Unfair Gamewas published in 2003. The author talks about the success of Oakland Athletics and explores how one of the poorest baseball teams managed to reach the pinnacle of success under the guidance of their General Manager Billy Beane. It reveals how the fortunes for this baseball team took unexpected turnarounds in Major League Baseball in the US.The book finds takers in sports as well as management, as it discusses the role of management. It explores the strategies and tactics used by Billy Beane to find out the secret of success. He changed the way the team used to play and ensured that it started reinventing itself. Beane did not use the conventional ways used by classic baseball coaches as he considered them flawed. On the contrary, he used sabermetrics for his team. He used methods that he had acquired from geek statisticians and college professors.Sabermetrics involves specially analyzing the baseball statistics to propel the team to break records. He looked for specific attributes in a potential player and chose the most unconventional players for his team. The story relates how Beane?s methods become popular and looking at the success of his team, even others started following him. This forced Beane to look for newer strategies and unexplored tactics to ensure that his team kept on winning.Beane passed on the message that a winning baseball team has to be made and not bought. It is believed that rich teams have better chances of winning as more money is spent on their talent as compared to the poorer teams. However, the Oakland Athletics, under the leadership of Beane, changed that perception and showed that a team can become a major league team irrespective of having a minor league payroll.It explores the ruthless perfection required in professional sports. The story is a fantastic combination of entertainment, ego, science, and money professional sports.Moneyball:The Art Of Winning An Unfair Gamewas adapted into a film with Brad Pitt in the lead role. Moreover, experts have used it for management studies highlighting how to break conventional ways to win.