activerain: Real Estate and Baseball and Moneyball and ActiveRain - 09/25/11 08:49 PM
I was inspired by Katerina Gasset's post, Moneyball- What's Not To Like About Baseball and Brad Pitt? , so I couldn't wait to go see the movie this afternoon. That and the fact that my husband would've killed me if I hadn't gone. He was a real jock "in the day," and played pro ball briefly in the early 60s.
Now Brad Pitt is quite "easy on the eyes" as they say, but the person he portrayed, Billy Beane, must've been quite a character. He turned down a scholarship to Stanford to go pro at age 18, and hopes were high … (8 comments)