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| Brad Pitt as Oakland A's General Manager Billy Beane |
Moneyball opens with some classic throwback television coverage—it’s the Oakland A’s in the elimination game of the American League Divisional Series against the New York Yankees in 2001. First we are live at the game in big New York, rocking with the playoff glitz and extravaganza that a big budget can afford, and then the camera emerges from this scene out of a lonely television being watched by a security guard in one of the stark back alleys of an empty Oakland Coliseum.
