Moneyball

This book by Michael Lewis has come up 3 times on Tim Ferriss. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: B. Jeffrey Madoff, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2020-05-06 and the most recent from 2024-06-25. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.

"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." ―Forbes Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge―insights that will give the little guy who is willing to discard old wisdom the edge over big money.