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There's a scene in "Moneyball" in which outfielder David Justice, freshly arrived from the stately New York Yankees, pounds a locker room vending machine in frustration. Miguel Tejada walks by and tells Justice he needs to insert a dollar. "Welcome to Oakland," he says sarcastically.
Justice the real Justice saw that scene in the trailer and chuckled.
In another scene, the actor playing Athletics bench coach Ron Washington recoils at the idea of teaching catcher Scott Hatteberg how to play first base: "It's incredibly hard," Washington says.
That one is closer to the mark. "Hatteberg and I did have that conversation," said Washington, now the manager of the Texas Rangers. "I told him that if he's willing to work, he can get it done. But it's not going to be easy."
Such is the nature of turning a bestselling book into a blockbuster biopic. Even if the events are true even if they're mostly true things will be pulled, twisted and tweaked so that they fit nicely into a cinematographer's frame.
The good news about "Moneyball," which opened last month, is that it's mostly on the money. Brad Pitt embodies Billy Beane's blend of arrogance and charm, his incisiveness and playfulness, and the picture captures the essence of the Athletics' creative friction during the early 2000s.
Beane, the Athletics' general manager, really did transform one of the poorest teams in Major League Baseball into a contender by challenging the game's sacred tenets. He really did have a laptopwielding Ivy League assistant by his side as he steamrollered over longtime scouts and cajoled manager Art Howe into abandoning traditional strategy. (Side note: Howe really wasn't selfish and sinister, but apparently every movie needs a villain.)
"I know how Hollywood can fictionalize everything. But for the most part, it was pretty true," said Athletics equipment manager Steve Vucinich, who ought to know. He has been with the organization since 1968. "They gussied it up some. But that's Hollywood, and that's OK."
Something else the movie nailed: Beane really is a handsome devil.
"Brad Pitt playing him is deadon," said former Athletics pitcher Barry Zito, now with the Giants. "Actually, Billy is better looking."
So what's fact and what's fiction? We broke out our score card during a recent screening to track all the hits and errors:
True: Beane did hire a former Cleveland Indians employee who had graduated cum laude with an economics degree from Harvard. In reality, he was Paul DePodesta, a selfassured former college athlete.
False: In the movie, DePodesta is reimagined (for legal reasons) as Peter Brand, played by Jonah Hill as a jittery misfit with an economics degree from Yale. DePodesta joined the A's in 1999; Brand starts in 2002.
False: DePodesta did not introduce Beane to James' work in '02, as the movie suggests. Former A's general manager Sandy Alderson encouraged Beane to read James' revolutionary "Abstracts" as early as 1995.
True: Scouting director Grady Fuson clashed with Beane over the A's increasing reliance on spreadsheets and soon found himself working in another organization.
False: He wasn't fired by Beane after a fit of rage. Fuson left in 2002 for a more prominent position with the Texas Rangers (and since has returned to the A's).
True: Jeremy Giambi was the team's discount leadoff hitter at the start of the 2002 season and had a reputation for wild nightlife.
False: While the movie suggests he was a new acquisition to replace his brother, Jason, Jeremy Giambi already was with the team. The A's got him from the Royals on Feb. 18, 2000.
True: The A's were so eager to make a run at Hatteberg a castoff catcher whose career was at a crossroads that they pestered his agent on Christmas Day.
False: Beane and Washington did not show up unannounced on his doorstep to make their pitch. It was all done by phone. "That scene captured what it felt like, though," Hatteberg said.
True: First baseman Carlos Pena was indeed jettisoned from the roster as part of a shakeup designed in part to force Howe to play Hatteberg at first.
False: The movie jumbles the timeline and shows Pena being traded within minutes of Jeremy Giambi in late May. In truth, Pena was sent to the minors at that point and not traded to the Tigers until early July.
True: The A's won their 20th consecutive game against the Kansas City Royals on Sept. 4, 2002, when Hatteberg, pinchhitting for Eric Byrnes, hit a homer on a 10 pitch from Jason Grimsley in the bottom of the ninth.
False: We couldn't spot a "false" anywhere in this game's recreation. Everything in this scene matches up with the box score. Even the outoftown scores in the outfield show Tampa Bay beating the Angels, 42,[url=http://www.holisteroutlet.cc]hollister femmes[/url], just as it happened that day.
True: Beane really did spurn a lucrative offer to become the Red Sox general manager, largely because he wanted to stay closer to his young daughter, Casey, who was living in San Diego.
False: There's nothing really false about this sweet note, but it's worth remembering that Casey is now in college in Ohio. Rumblings are building that the Chicago Cubs will try to lure Beane away this offseason.

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