Photo: 'Moneyball'/Sony Pictures Releasing Moneyball is a solid drama starring Brad Pitt as real-life Baseball manager Billy Beane. It charts his quest to circumvent his team’s lack of finance and the ensuing revolutionary strategy he and his partner Peter Brand (Jonah Hill) introduced into the sporting world: Moneyball, an intelligent concept devised to evaluate players based solely on statistics. A Sports Film Unafraid To Be About Sports You don’t have to be a baseball fan to enjoy Moneyball, but its' surprisingly detailed portrayal of the inner workings of an athletic institution should be universally interesting to anyone who follows sports more generally. Most sport-dramas overemphasize personal struggles in order to appeal to a wider audience, yet Moneyball is unafraid to primarily be about baseball, which is a gutsy approach given the mass appeal it seeks. It mostly succeeds; I am not a baseball fan, and I was...