They wrote a best-selling book about his baseball team. They made a Hollywood movie about their winning streak. They made a celebrity out of him. Now, 15 years removed from his moment of glory, Scott ...
Scott Hatteberg was like so many other people in baseball, as well as fans, when word started coming from Hollywood in 2008 that Moneyball was going to be turned into a movie. "I really wondered how ...
This interview was originally broadcast on May 28, 2003. The film Moneyball, which is based on Michael Lewis' book, opens on Friday. When Michael Lewis started researching his book, Moneyball, he had ...
It's a baseball movie. More than that, it's a baseball statistics movie, with its focus squarely on things like on-base percentage. So "Moneyball" is a movie for true baseball fanatics, right? Maybe ...
The Oakland A’s have been through some tough times recently both off and on the field. The team sits in the AL West 32.5 games out of first place, but more importantly, there is the specter of the ...
Baseball fans who remember the 2002 season and business-book aficionados who loved Michael Lewis' "Moneyball" immediately will spot some of the "artistic license," to use Brad Pitt's words, that the ...
Oakland Athletics' Scott Hatteberg celebrates his home run in the bottom of the ninth inning against the Kansas City Royals, for Oakland's 20th consective victory and a new American League record, ...
Those that read Moneyball remember it well. There was the case of Scott Hatteberg. Hatteberg moved from behind the dish to first base because he could no longer throw effectively. He could however, ...
The writer also talks to THR about the status of the "Big Short" adaptation at Paramount, how the "Moneyball" movie differed from his book and his first reaction to the casting. By Andy Lewis, Gregg ...
Brad Pitt, Academy Award winner Philip Seymour Hoffman and Oscar-winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin were among those on the red carpet at the Paramount Theater in Oakland on Monday evening as ...
Moneyball, which arrives in theaters Friday, is a tale that is more The Social Network than Major League. Its inspiration, Michael Lewis’s 2003 volume about the success of the underfunded Oakland ...