Trading Bases
How a Wall Street Trader Made a Fortune Betting on Baseball
$42.30
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2014
Summary
The trade paperback reprint of Dutton’s hardcover, TRADING BASES tells the story of a Stanford MBA and former Wall Street trader who applied his investment techniques and risk analysis skills to beat the odds and make money betting on baseball.An ex-Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods. Here is the story of how Joe Peta turned fantasy baseball into a dream come true.Joe Peta turned his back on his Wall Street tradin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780451415172 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0451415175 |
| Author: | Joe Peta |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Berkley Publishing Corporation,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2014 |
| Weight: | 397g |
| Dimensions: | 227mm x 152mm x 21mm |
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Critics Review
“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
About The Author
Joe Peta
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.
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