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- Full name: William Lamar Beane
- Born: March 29, 1962
- Birthplace: Orlando, Florida
- Height: 6'4"
- Weight: 195 lbs
- Position: Outfield
- Bats: Right
- Throws: Right
- College: University of California, San Diego
- Draft year: 1980
- Career batting average: .219Baseball-Reference.com: Billy Beane
- Career hits: 66Baseball-Reference.com: Billy Beane
- Career RBI: 29Baseball-Reference.com: Billy Beane
- Became Oakland Athletics GM in 1997
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Billy Beane is a former Major League Baseball player who became the general manager of the Oakland Athletics in the late 1990s.
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Moneyball
In 2003, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game was published. The book detailed Beane's unique approach to managing the A's—with a budget much smaller than many of his competitors, Beane used statistics such as On Base Percentage|on base percentage (OBP) to build a winning team without having to spend large sums of money on the salaries of marquee players. The book was written by Michael Lewis.Amazon.com: Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Billy Beane Questions
Billy are we cool? 1 AnswerSup, yea, were cool, do i get points for this question? ololol read more
Did the Mayan's eat beans? 1 AnswerThere were historical evidence of mayan's eating beans and corns. Less info is available about the details of their intake. read more
What area of the world did the bean originate from? 2 Answershttp://static.newworldencyclopedia.org/9/9e/A_green_bean.jpg Common Bean or Phaseolus vulgaris. The wild bean origins had been inconsistently followed. Scienti... read more
How should you store and use beans? 1 AnswerThe method of storing the beans (coffee) depends upon the type of beans used.That is whether it is green coffee beans, roasted coffee beans or ground coffee bea... read more
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Billy Beane Vital Stats
- Mahalo's Guide to the Oakland Athletics
- Height: 6-4
- Weight: 195 lbs
- Rookie Year: 1984
- Retired: 1989
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@JohnMarecek I did see that. Yes, that struck me as odd that he signed so quickly. But, Billy Beane is smarter than everyone. Right?
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@leokitty It's news, obviously, because of all the mean things Billy Beane said about scouts when he wrote Moneyball
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Good Billy Beane interview: http://www.minorleagueball.com/2009/11/20/1167032/an-interview-with-oakland-gm-billy#comments
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Reading "Moneyball" by Michael Lewis. I'm about 5 yrs too late but it's must read 4 any baseball fan. Billy Beane story is incredible!
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RT @feedtheyak if THAT is what they did to The Blind Side, how are they going to massacre Moneyball? Billy Beane an... http://bit.ly/791God
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