The second half of Moneyball gets deeper into the A's drafting players that other teams do not really want, and then follows these players' stories as they rise up to the Major Leagues and do very well to everyone else's suprise.
One of these players was Jeremey Brown, who Billy Beane drafted out of Alabama. In most people's eyes, Brown was fat and lazy, and no other team wanted anything to do with him. What Beane and his men saw was that even though Brown didn't look like the greatest baseball player, he got on base much more than anyone else in his conference. Other teams laughed at Beane and the A's for drafting Brown, but he ends up shooting up through the minor leagues as one of the best players drafted in his year.
The end of the book focuses on the A's run to the playoffs, and how even though the team has been successful with their unconventional ways, many people still fail to put any confidence in them. The A's are still doing things in their own way now, and they have made it to the playoffs again.
I would recommend this book to someone who is interested in baseball or business. Other people may be bored by it, but I think it will prove to be one of the most important book written on baseball this generation. Many other teams are already modeling their practices after Beane's ways that are described in Moneyball.
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