Moneyball

Billy found himself with no wife, and out of a baseball uniform. His wife moved back to San Diego with their daughter, Casey. Billy spent his weeks scouting, and his weekends driving from Oakland to San Diego, and back again. Billy couldn't afford plane tickets. His life was filled with anxieties. He now had 2 of them. One was he wouldn't know his own daughter. And the other was he wouldn't cut it in the front office. When he wasn't traveling from Oakland to San Diego, he was speeding around the whole country watching games and listening to other scouts talk about players. But what Billy hadn't lost was his need to win. He just transferred it to a different place from playing to making decisions about players. Except this time he had guidance from someone who went to not 1, but 2 ivy league schools. That man, is Sandy Alderson. Sand py once said that Billy finally figured out he wanted to be Sandy more than he wanted to be Jose Canseco. In 1993, Sandy was impressed by the way Billy attacked every task he was given, so he brought him into the front office and made Billy his assistant. Sandy told him that his job was to find undervalued minor league players.
Billy wasn't one to waste a lot of time worrying about whether he was motivated by a desire to succeed or the pursuit of truth. To his way of thinking, the question was academic, sicnce the pursuit or truth was, suddenly, the key to success.