A Left Tackle Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
There
seems nothing Michael Lewis does not know about his subjects. His way of
writing about them is simultaneously zippy and deep, not an easy trick as any
writer can tell you.
Of course, he goes on a bit sometimes, and every now and
then he pulls a quip out of left field, but overall, he’s very engaging even
when discussing data-driven topics like the bond market in Liar’s Poker and the tech boom in The New New Thing. Even
when he writes about more accessible subjects, he seems to prefer a complicated
approach. Moneyball is a sabermetrics
treatise about a small-market baseball team struggling to maintain its
relevance in the free-agency era.
In the book being discussed today, Lewis
looks at pro football from the perspective of perhaps the most overlooked
player on the field, the left tackle.
