20 Things You Didn’t Know About Moneyball
1. The Oakland Athletics Repeated Their Success The Year After The Movie Came Out
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Quite poetically, the year after Moneyball was released, the A's repeated their success by winning the AL West, once again under Billy Beane.
Despite the Texas Rangers being the odds-on favourites to emerge victorious, the A's pulled ahead by winning the last game of the season, beating the Rangers by just a single victory.
And as if yet again proving the point of the movie, Beane pulled this momentous feat off with what was at the time the second-lowest payroll in baseball, at just $59.5 million.
Aptly, both fans and the press alike dubbed the season "Moneyball 2."
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