Billy Beane

Billy Beane interests me more as a thinker than as a baseball man. He was the can't-miss prospect who missed, and instead of letting that failure define him, he turned it into the central insight of his career: that human judgment about talent is systematically flawed. Running the cash-poor Athletics, he bet on data when the entire industry trusted gut feeling, and the Moneyball revolution he triggered now shapes every front office in sports, plus plenty of boardrooms outside it. I admire people who convert personal disappointment into institutional change, and Beane is the textbook case. That he still works with the Athletics decades later says something about stubborn, durable conviction.

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Name (English)

Billy Beane

Name (Japanese)

ビリー・ビーン

Reading

びりー・びーん

Born

March 29, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Orlando, Florida, United States

Occupation

baseball player / general manager / businessperson / manager

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Tiger

High school

Mt. Carmel High School

University

University of California, San Diego

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy%20Beane
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26122

Tags

• Florida
• baseball player
• general manager
• businessperson

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.