I’ve read articles about Moneyball for Education, Moneyball for Movie Studios, Moneyball for Medicare, Moneyball for Golf, Moneyball for Farming, Moneyball for Book Publishing (!), Moneyball for Presidential Campaigns, Moneyball for Bankers, and so on.
-- Narrator (Introduction)

Importance: Lewis uses the Introduction to frame the story of Danny and Amos in a way that connects it to his earlier book, Moneyball, about the use of analytics in baseball. In doing so, he demonstrates the wider cultural impact of Moneyball by listing other people’s attempts to write similar things.

But the reality is that every fucking person, including me, thought he was unathletic. And I can’t think of any reason for it other than he was Asian.
-- Daryl Morey (chapter 1)

Importance: Daryl Morey reflects in emphatic terms on the biases that led basketball experts to overlook the talents of Jeremy Lin, foreshadowing the theme of systematic bias in the work of Danny and Amos.

How much...
-- Narrator (chapter 6)