The Oakland clubhouse is a wonderful place. A lot of these guys feel like rejects. They were rejects and they feel - they can tell you how baseball screwed up.

W. Books
Michael Lewis (2011). Lewis worked for Conde Nast Portfolio but in February 2009 left to join Vanity Fair where he became a contributing editor.

Michael Monroe Lewis (born October 15 1960) is an American non-fiction author and financial journalist. His bestselling books include The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine Liar's Poker The New New Thing Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game Panic Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood and Boomerang.