Trading Bases: A Story about Wall Street, Gambling, and Baseball (Not Necessarily in That Order )

by Joe Peta

Book Overview

An ex Wall Street trader improved on "Moneyball" s famed sabermetrics to place bets that would beat the Vegas odds on Major League Baseball games with a 41 percent return in his first year. "Trading Bases" explains how he did it. After the fall of Lehman Brothers, Joe Peta was out of a job. He found a new one but lost that, too, when an ambulance mowed him down. In search of a way to cheer himself up while he recuperated in a wheelchair, Peta started...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525953647
• ISBN13: 9780525953647
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Dutton Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher