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Extra 2% How Wall Street Strategies Took a Major League Baseball Team from Worst to First

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ISBN-10: 0345517652

ISBN-13: 9780345517654

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jonah Keri

List price: $30.00
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What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens-the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team#x19;s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs partners Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: ESPN Enterprises
Publication date: 3/8/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Jonah Keri is a sports and stock market writer. His take on the issues is influenced by objective analysis and biased Canadianism. Jonah's sports writing has appeared at ESPN.com, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and many others. He is also the editor and co-author of Baseball Between the Numbers, among others. Jonah covers the stock market for Investor's Business Daily, and his podcast is one of the Web's most popular sports podcasts.

Foreword
Prologue
Stalking Horse
The Wrong CEO
The LaMar Principle
New Blood
The Takeover
Broad Street Joe
The Exorcism
Arbitrage
Worst to First
Mystery Men
David Versus Goliaths
The Pit
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes