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Pedro Moura has written a clear-eyed, absorbing account of the Dodgers' rise--and baseball's decline. It lays out everything broken about Major League Baseball while simultaneously reminding us exactly why we love the sport so much. How to Beat a Broken Game is a book with heart to match its brains. If only the league itself could say the same thing. --Eric Nusbaum, author of Stealing Home The scope of this book is just extraordinary. It's supposedly about a single championship team, but it's really about everything: technology and culture, insiders and outsiders, the young and the old, and all that's right and wrong and now and next in the sport today. Moura is such a great reporter that he does what every writer wishes they could do: He comes to know even more about his subject than his sources do. I loved this book, even if it did make me feel old. --Sam Miller, bestselling coauthor of The Only Rule is It Has to Work Today, baseball is deciding who it will serve in--and for--the coming generations. Soaked in greed and in the hands of Ivy League numbers crunchers, the game teeters between sport and thesis paper. Better it is in the hands of Pedro Moura, who, in How to Beat a Broken Game, has captured the science, the economics, and the soul of a pastime laboring to rediscover its most authentic self. It's a brilliant book about the championship Dodgers. It's a book about so much more. --Tim Brown, bestselling coauthor of The Phenomenon and Imperfect

"""[S]pectacular.""--Dodgers Way (Fansided) ""Moura has written an insightful read for baseball fans who want to understand the inside workings of a remarkably successful franchise.""--The National Review ""Pedro Moura has written a clear-eyed, absorbing account of the Dodgers' rise--and baseball's decline. It lays out everything broken about Major League Baseball while simultaneously reminding us exactly why we love the sport so much. How to Beat a Broken Game is a book with heart to match its brains. If only the league itself could say the same thing.""--Eric Nusbaum, author of Stealing Home ""The scope of this book is just extraordinary. It's supposedly about a single championship team, but it's really about everything: technology and culture, insiders and outsiders, the young and the old, and all that's right and wrong and now and next in the sport today. Moura is such a great reporter that he does what every writer wishes they could do: He comes to know even more about his subject than his sources do. I loved this book, even if it did make me feel old.""--Sam Miller, bestselling coauthor of The Only Rule is It Has to Work ""Today, baseball is deciding who it will serve in--and for--the coming generations. Soaked in greed and in the hands of Ivy League numbers crunchers, the game teeters between sport and thesis paper. Better it is in the hands of Pedro Moura, who, in How to Beat a Broken Game, has captured the science, the economics, and the soul of a pastime laboring to rediscover its most authentic self. It's a brilliant book about the championship Dodgers. It's a book about so much more.""--Tim Brown, bestselling coauthor of The Phenomenon and Imperfect"

[S]pectacular. --Dodgers Way (Fansided) Moura has written an insightful read for baseball fans who want to understand the inside workings of a remarkably successful franchise. --The National Review Pedro Moura has written a clear-eyed, absorbing account of the Dodgers' rise--and baseball's decline. It lays out everything broken about Major League Baseball while simultaneously reminding us exactly why we love the sport so much. How to Beat a Broken Game is a book with heart to match its brains. If only the league itself could say the same thing. --Eric Nusbaum, author of Stealing Home The scope of this book is just extraordinary. It's supposedly about a single championship team, but it's really about everything: technology and culture, insiders and outsiders, the young and the old, and all that's right and wrong and now and next in the sport today. Moura is such a great reporter that he does what every writer wishes they could do: He comes to know even more about his subject than his sources do. I loved this book, even if it did make me feel old. --Sam Miller, bestselling coauthor of The Only Rule is It Has to Work Today, baseball is deciding who it will serve in--and for--the coming generations. Soaked in greed and in the hands of Ivy League numbers crunchers, the game teeters between sport and thesis paper. Better it is in the hands of Pedro Moura, who, in How to Beat a Broken Game, has captured the science, the economics, and the soul of a pastime laboring to rediscover its most authentic self. It's a brilliant book about the championship Dodgers. It's a book about so much more. --Tim Brown, bestselling coauthor of The Phenomenon and Imperfect

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Pedro Moura is a senior writer at The Athletic, a sports site with more than a million paid subscribers. He has covered the Dodgers full time for three years, and part time for five years before that at the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register. Previously, he worked at ESPN.com. His work has been cited in The Best American Sports Writing. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

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