But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it-before I had a story to fall in love with. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. Following the low-budget Oakland Athletics, their larger-than-life general manger, Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts, Michael Lewis has written not only "the single most influential baseball book ever" (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what "may be the best book ever written on business" ( Weekly Standard). This is their impression of me probably the rest of my life so that’s disappointing.Moneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. Howe: “The thing that bothers me about the movie is that, you know, I think everybody in baseball knows who I am but so many people who are going to be seeing this movie really don’t know me. Now, what can you say? (laughs) He ran some things by me and I verified some things and gave my slant to different things but they never got into the book, my slants.”
Howe: “ came in my office for about 10 minutes one day and that’s all the time he spent with me.
Like I said, I haven’t seen the movie but I’ve read the reviews and several people have talked to me about it. If you ask any player that ever played for me they would say that they never saw this side of me, ever. I spent my whole career trying to build a good reputation and I think I did that but this movie certainly doesn’t help it. I don’t know who it is but maybe it is Hollywood to make it sell, I guess.
Howe: “They never called me to get my slant on things as far as the movie was concerned. Art Howe: “Considering the book wasn’t real favorable to me to start with I figured it would be something like this but to be honest with you it is very disappointing to know that you spent seven years in an organization and gave your heart and soul to it and helped them go to the postseason your last three years there and win over 100 games your last two seasons and this is the way evidently your boss feels about you.”
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