The film followed Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) and Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) as they tried to change the fortunes of the Oakland Athletics baseball team through a math-based, statistical approach. Howe, who was the team’s manager at the time, was played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman. To the real Howe’s frustration, he was depicted as a stubborn traditionalist, angrily opposed to change.
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