Scouting report: The Moneyball trailerAfter years in Hollywood hell, the movie adaptation of Michael Lewis' Moneyball stepped into the on-deck circle today with the release of its first trailer. Plaguing the three directors (David Frankel, Steven Soderbergh, and, finally, Bennett Miller) and screenwriters (Steven Zaillian, Stan Chervin, and, finally, Aaron Sorkin) who took turns developing Moneyball was the problem of translating the book's more advanced concepts — sabremetrics, traditional versus progressive front-office models, the budgets of baseball franchises, the minutiae of player contracts — into a story that made sense even to baseball illiterates. Their solution: Turning the Oakland A's into Hickory High and Billy Beane into Norman Dale.
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