TY - JOUR AU1 - Bickman, Leonard AB - Adm Policy Ment Health (2012) 39:1–2 DOI 10.1007/s10488-012-0409-9 OR IGINAL PAPER Why Can’t Mental Health Services be More Like Modern Baseball? Leonard Bickman Published online: 11 March 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 I am not much of a sports fan but I enjoyed the 2011 movie players he selected. Ultimately, the Athletics win an Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt. The movie is a true story unprecedented 20 consecutive games, setting the American based a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, League record (Moneyball, 2011)’’. Moreover, this was a Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (Lewis, sustained effect. The A’s made the playoffs five times over 2003). It is about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and a period of 7 years while having one of the lowest payrolls its general manager Billy Beane. For those of you who in a league typically dominated by teams with the highest have not seen the movie or read the book I will quote from payrolls. Wikipedia. ‘‘Its focus is the team’s analytical, evidence- Of course professional baseball is not the only sport that based, sabermetric approach to assembling a competitive has extensive statistics, ask almost any 12-year-old child to baseball TI - Why Can’t Mental Health Services be More Like Modern Baseball? JF - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research DO - 10.1007/s10488-012-0409-9 DA - 2012-03-11 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/why-can-t-mental-health-services-be-more-like-modern-baseball-sBkf7HUtG7 SP - 1 EP - 2 VL - 39 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -