The title didn't tip me off, which makes me think I'm thick in the head

34. Billy Bean and Chris Bull "Going the Other Way: Lessons from a Life In and Out of Major League Baseball"
Billy Beane is the general manager of Oakland Athletics. He was one of the first men in baseball to embrace sabermetrics, a system of judging baseball players on math alone. By ignoring old scouts advice about good feelings, he was able to construct first place teams with a fourth place budget. The book "Moneyball" is based around Beane's tactics and odd character traits.

Billy Bean was a bench-warmer for a few major league teams for roughly ten years. He happens to be gay. I mixed up the two men.

"Going the Other Way" reads like an inspirational speech for fifth graders. Bean advocates for equal treatment for gay baseball players, which seems like common sense because it is. The problem, well, not a problem, but definitely something that makes the book less compelling, is that Bean didn't come out of the closet for years after his playing days. While his personal decision shouldn't affect the story, it does. It's kinda boring and what you'd expect from a Lifetime movie.