Michael Lewis should be floated on Wall Street. Almost everything he has written has either been ahead of the curve - The New New Thing & The Blind Side - or summed up an era like Liar's Poker. In 2003, he wrote Moneyball about the Oakland A's 2002 season in which they scored a record 20 straight wins but still failed to qualify for the World Series.
Hollywood does baseball films better than it does rugby or soccer viz The Natural, Field of Dreams & The Babe. Moneyball, maybe a slow mover but nonetheless it is a moving film about the best blue collar game in the world.
I loved it.