![]() He and his parents-bright people without much money who had married young and joined the military middle class-were ecstatic. When Beane was 18 years old, Stanford University had offered him a football and baseball scholarship. But I thought that he could work.”Īnd so Moneyball became in large part the drama of Billy Beane: the autodidact who gave himself an education. You would only talk to me when the lights were out. I got home, I had notes all over the paper, I was writing over my own handwriting, but I started scribbling. I can’t remember what it was now, but it was interesting. And you started talking about your relationship to the game. ![]() ![]() “We were coming back and it was night and dark, because I remember I couldn’t see my notepad. “But there was a moment,” continues Lewis, “when I thought, ‘Ha, I can work with this.’ We went down to-” ![]()
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