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Moneyball (2011)
Insights from numbers
While certainly a great movie about the game of baseball, there are so many valuable insights as well relating to the creative way that patterns can be detected by stepping back and observing the picture that numbers can draw out for us. In many of those instances we are able to confirm what seems so obvious, yet in some cases it helps us to think about what is really at the heart of something. With Moneyball, it's about "Get on base", and however that might happen... a player who's good at seeing balls versus strikes, a player who's good at stealing bases, a player who gets more singles than doubles or triples. The cast is amazing, and the story timeless. A must see!
Perry Beaumont
Hidden Figures: It All Adds Up - The Making of Hidden Figures (2017)
An amazing story
This movie is such a favorite, especially as it combines three things of special interest to me... the early days of the space program, John Glenn, and the tenaciousness of really special women who selflessly (and with little appreciation) gave so much of themselves to help their country in incredible ways. As a boy the game I would often play with friends was pretending we had just landed on some faraway planet, and then explore the new world. Being born and raised in Ohio, a hero at the time (and still today) was John Glenn, one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and later a U.S. Senator. As a college student I had the opportunity to work with John Glenn in his Washington D.C. office, and I can say from first-hand experience that he very much seemed to prefer talking about the NASA days rather than just about any bill pending before the Congress. And it was infectious... he very much inspired me to obtain a pilot's license, and for that I'll always be grateful. But not as grateful as I am for what he did to provide those amazing women mathematicians with the respect and admiration they so very much deserved. Thank you John Glenn, and thank you Hidden Figures, for all that you sacrificed and so generously gave to your country at such an amazing time in our nations's history. With eternal gratitude, Perry Beaumont