After earning an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business, Joe Peta was a Wall Street market maker and hedge fund stock trader for fifteen years, but he was a sports bettor for even longer. A lifelong baseball fan, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and two daughters.
“Fascinating…reads like a mash up of Liar’s Poker and
Moneyball.”—Publishers Weekly
“[A] swaggering story from frantic stock trader to professional
sports bettor....Even casual baseball fans could learn from it.
Serious fans should slurp it up like ballpark beer.”—Los Angeles
Times
“He reminds me of Nate Silver—he’s able to blend different worlds
(in this case, baseball and finance) using his intense knowledge of
each to give us a very entertaining read.”—Play-by-Play Announcer
for the San Francisco Giants and ESPN National Sportscaster Dave
Flemming
“Peta created a reliable system for beating Vegas odds throughout
the 2011 Major League season…but it’s clear he loves the game as
much as the winnings. Moreover, he asks a number of salient
questions, such as: How can businesses on Wall Street and beyond
apply thinking used by baseball sabermetricians to strengthen their
own organizations? The answers, and how Peta arrived at them, make
for great reading.”—Booklist
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