What baseball managers did do, on occasion, beginning in the early 1980s, was hire some guy who knew how to switch on the computer. But they did this less with honest curiosity than in the spirit of a beleaguered visitor to Morocco hiring a tour guide: pay off one so that the seventy-five others will stop trying to trade you their camels for your wife. Which one you pay off is largely irrelevant.

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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.