The best book of the year, [Lewis has hit another one out of the park.... You need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis's] thoughts about it.By playing Boswell to Beane's Samuel Johnson, Lewis has given us one of the most enjoyable baseball books in years.Ebullient, invigorating.... Provides plenty of action, both numerical and athletic, on the field and in the draft-day war room.A journalistic tour de force.Michael Lewis's beautiful obsession with the idea of value has once again yielded gold....I understood about one in four words of This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame.