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Steve Kettmann
In the 1990s I covered the Oakland A's for the San Francisco Chronicle, and was intrigued to watch the unfolding relationship between Sandy Alderson, then the team's general manager, and his young protege, Billy Beane. Alderson built an A's team that won the 1989 World Series and innovated with using advanced statistical analysis. Later, Michael Lewis wrote a book about Beane that made him very famous. The movie version of the Lewis book had no character corresponding to Alderson, which struck many of us around at the time as an omission. I was drawn to tell the tale of the 1980s A's, led by the enlightened ownership of the Haas family, and to follow the story forward to Alderson's recent years as GM of the New York Mets, who in 2015 do indeed seem to be "revived," as my subtitle asserts.
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