Why highlight a book about baseball statistics?
Moneyball is near the essence of our argument. It’s about some geeks playing fantasy baseball who figured out that professional baseball was doing it wrong — they were consistently misappropriating resources based on flawed valuations and calcified strategic habits. They were overpaying guy who looked good in their uniforms and stole a lot of bases, and they were underpaying fat guys who got a lot of walks. The small market Oakland A’s — trying to compete with teams of much larger budgets — started hiring some of the undervalued players. And the Oakland A’s became baseball’s most successful franchises per-dollar, and changed the way the baseball culture valued players. Volunteerism is one of those undervalued resources. Whether it’s through churches, blogging, online actions, canvassing, registering voters, starting organizations, hosting house parties, talking at parties — leveraging volunteer driven democracy is a big piece of how we can foment a new movement. We’re not gonna get
