Chapter 5 returns to 2002, covering Oakland’s picks when the draft gets underway.
From the humble start of a self-published newsletter in the 1970s, James builds a following over a decade or so, publishing his Baseball Abstract each year, in which he analyzes the game using statistics. In Chapter 4, Lewis details the work of the baseball writer and analyst Bill James. Despite his promising start-and the conviction of the baseball insiders that he had the right stuff-his career was rather disappointing. In Chapter 3, the author returns to Beane’s playing days, describing his career with the Mets throughout the decade of the 1980s. The basic tension between the approach of the old-school baseball scouts and Beane’s method is introduced. The next chapter jumps to 2002, when Beane is the general manager of the Oakland A’s the summer before the draft. Chapter 1 describes Beane as a sports star in high school and his road to signing with the New York Mets right after graduation.
The first few chapters alternate between Billy Beane’s story as a young player in the 1980s and the year 2002, when most of the book takes place.
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