Winning Fixes Everything: How Baseball's Brightest Minds Created Sports' Biggest Mess

The reporter who broke the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal reveals how a baseball team could so dramatically descend into corruption, with the never-before-told inside account of a broken management culture, the once-revered leaders who enabled it, and the sign-stealing scandal itself.

Baseball, that old romantic game, has been defaced and consumed by corporate America. As Moneyball-thinking and Ivy League graduates took hold of the sport’s analytics in baseball, the Astros set out to build...