Lucy Fife Donaldson says: "Baseball recruitment and strategy used to be based on the intuition of managers and scouts. Moneyball is a biopic (based on a book by Michael Lewis) of Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, and his attempt to counter tradition and build a competitive team with little money with the help of Yale Economics grad Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) in 2002. The film dramatizes Beane’s struggle to keep the team going, interwoven with his own d find out more...