Billy Beane's Moneyball

English CPT Essay For those who are unfamiliar, baseball is a game that depends greatly on the mental aspect. In the book Moneyball, the character the biography is centred around, Billy Beane struggles with the mental aspect of baseball. Billy is physically talented and on paper, projects to be a great player. Although like Mark Teixeira said, “Baseball is a game of failure.” This is something Billy doesn’t understand in his younger years; hence he is constantly angry at himself. Billy’s self-directed anger ultimately causes him to never stick in the MLB, get divorced and use his anger as a reminder to never overlook players.

Billy played for a couple years in the majors bouncing around from team to team, each one trying to see if they could

Being home more often ultimately causes Billy and his wife and to get divorced. Billy explains how being home all the time affected his relationship: “Baseball marriage were like that: their most vulnerable moment was immediately after a player retired and it dawned on a husband and wife they’d actually be spending time together.” (61) Billy’s wife got to spend more time with Billy and ultimately left him because she wasn’t comfortable with his intensity and anger. The effect of Billy splitting up with his wife was losing his daughter, Casey. Divorcing his wife made seeing his daughter very complicated for Billy:” His wife moved back to San Diego and took their infant daughter … Casey. Billy spent his weeks scouting and his weekends speeding down, and then back up, the highway between Oakland and San Diego, he couldn’t afford the plane tickets.” (61-62) This shows how his anger ultimately caused him to lose his daughter and secondly forces him to travel great lengths just to see her. Billy’s anger ultimately leads to him losing his family, which seems awful, although this allows Billy to make major mental and spiritual changes which overall make him a changed