Beane

Michael Lewis wrote Moneyball, and Billy Beane is quoted throughout, both directly, and in “spirit”.

How Clutch Was That? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Billy Beane is GM of the Oakland Athletics baseball team.

Love Your Job? That Doesn’t Mean You’re Better at It - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007

Author Lawrence Watt-Evans 'essay title, "The Heirs of Sawney Beane", is a reference to the Reavers in the Firefly universe, a band of human-descended cannibals who, much like the legend of Sawney Beane, relied on cannibalism as a way to survive.

REVIEW: Finding Serenity edited by Jane Espenson 2005

Oakland's Billy Beane is the high priest of this approach.

USATODAY.com - Epstein getting it together in Boston 2004

Beane is hesitant to offer long-term contracts to closers, but that doesn't mean he will not do it.

USATODAY.com - Foulke provides Athletics with the finishing touch 2003

GM Billy Beane is interested in becoming the Dodgers '

USATODAY.com - Here's hoping the Rocket will reconsider 2003

A's manager Art Howe believes that his contract certainly deserves to be extended now that GM Billy Beane is locked up until 2008.

USATODAY.com 2002

Just ask those unfortunate souls who have witnessed the metamorphosis in Beane's personality once the game begins.

USATODAY.com - Beane chooses to see opportunity 2002

A's general manager Billy Beane is expected to get a three-year extension through 2008 that will pay him in excess of $1 million a year.

USATODAY.com 2002

"In this story, we have a terrible professional baseball player," said Pitt, referring to Beane, a first-round draftee who succeeded in the game only after he retired as a player.

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