This week we watched Moneyball, the 2011 movie starring Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, as he tries to take the Oakland A's to the top of the baseball world using statistics as his guide. Jonah Hill and Chris Pratt also play roles as a Yale-educated statistician and a player put into a new role, respectively. The movie is based on true events and is directed by Bennett Miller. Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin adapted the screenplay from the book  ...