How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Bas

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- Release Date: 03/08/2011
- Publisher: Random House
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Classification: Nonfiction
- Series: N/A
- Language: English
- Format: Unabridged edition
- Genre: Business, Health & Sports
- Author: Jonah Keri
- Read by: Lloyd James
- Duration: 584 minutes
- Run Time: 584 minutes
- Language: English
- Language: English
- Audio Library Digital - 9781611202373
- Audio Retail Digital - 9781611202366
- 8 Audio CD(s) - 9781611202342
- 1 Audio MP3 CD(s) - 9781611203097
- Playaway - 9781611202380
The Extra 2%
The Extra 2%
How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Bas
How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Bas
- By Jonah Keri
- Genre: Business, Health & Sports
Audio Library Digital
05/24/2011
584 minutes
9781611202373
Audio Retail Digital
05/24/2011
584 minutes
9781611202366
Audio CD
05/24/2011
8 Audio CD
584 minutes
9781611202342
Audio MP3 CD
05/24/2011
1 Audio MP3 CD
584 minutes
9781611203097
Playaway
05/24/2011
584 minutes
9781611202380
Description:
What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens - the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team's Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. By quantifying the game's intangibles, they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay an American League pennant. This is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.Quotes:
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Jonah Keri has given us a fascinating look at how the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays became winners. The Extra 2% is a captivating book if you love baseball, but it's an even more captivating book if you love success., Joe Posnanski, , senior writer, Sports Illustrated
Jonah Keri has given us a fascinating look at how the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays became winners. The Extra 2% is a captivating book if you love baseball, but it's an even more captivating book if you love success., Joe Posnanski, , senior writer, Sports Illustrated
There are a million ways to build a World Series team, but no one has ever built one quite like the Wall Street escapees in Tampa Bay. After reading Jonah Keri's brilliant account of the Rays' rise from laugh track to payback, I found myself thinking, 'The heck with Moneyball. Give me Equityball.', Jayson Stark, , senior writer, ESPN.com
There are a million ways to build a World Series team, but no one has ever built one quite like the Wall Street escapees in Tampa Bay. After reading Jonah Keri's brilliant account of the Rays' rise from laugh track to payback, I found myself thinking, 'The heck with Moneyball. Give me Equityball.', Jayson Stark, , senior writer, ESPN.com
The Tampa Bay Rays - with their ma-and-pa-sized budget - have gone head to head with baseball's two superpowers, the Yankees and the Red Sox. In the superb The Extra 2%, Jonah Keri explains how and why in a way that will remind readers of Michael Lewis's Moneyball., Buster Olney, , senior writer, ESPN The Magazine, and Author
The Tampa Bay Rays - with their ma-and-pa-sized budget - have gone head to head with baseball's two superpowers, the Yankees and the Red Sox. In the superb The Extra 2%, Jonah Keri explains how and why in a way that will remind readers of Michael Lewis's Moneyball., Buster Olney, , senior writer, ESPN The Magazine, and Author
All baseball fans ever ask for is hope: hope not only for a season out of their dreams, but also for leaders smart enough and imaginative enough to figure out how to make those dreams reality. In The Extra 2%, Jonah Keri not only presents this blueprint followed to perfection but does so with a brilliant page-turner of a book that will satisfy fans of both baseball and first-rate writing., Mike Vaccaro, , columnist, the New York Post
All baseball fans ever ask for is hope: hope not only for a season out of their dreams, but also for leaders smart enough and imaginative enough to figure out how to make those dreams reality. In The Extra 2%, Jonah Keri not only presents this blueprint followed to perfection but does so with a brilliant page-turner of a book that will satisfy fans of both baseball and first-rate writing., Mike Vaccaro, , columnist, the New York Post
...a fascinating story that never bogs down with too many numbers., AudioFile Magazine
...a fascinating story that never bogs down with too many numbers., AudioFile Magazine
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