An excellent look at behavior, statistics, and rationality, this book does suffer from jumping around a bit and lacks a clear focus. That said, Michael Lewis tells great stories, and carries multiple threads; if he ever learns to make better transitions or weave them together more fluidly, he could be a household name like Gladwell or Michener.

You don't have to be interested in baseball to like this book, but you have to be interested in critical analysis or behavioral studies, because this book is really more about the culture of baseball more than the sport itself, and how that insular culture allows it to avoid self-reflection.