Moneyball casting getting interesting

ESPN reports: Baseball has a funny way of throwing perceptions for a curve. Just consider recent events involving the two teams in the Bay Area.San Francisco general manager Brian Sabean, routinely vilified as a grump and a guy who gives out overpriced contracts, just rode in a parade celebrating the franchise’s first championship since 1954. Meanwhile, Billy Beane, a charismatic, progressive thinker and media favorite whose team has won one playoff series in his 13 seasons as Oakland GM, will be portrayed by Brad Pitt next fall in the movie version of Michael Lewis’ best-seller “Moneyball.” Miguel Tejada, one of the Oakland players featured in the movie, was born and raised in the Dominican Republic. For the role of Tejada, the filmmakers cast Royce Clayton, a Burbank, Calif., native who grew up in Inglewood and speaks just enough Spanish to be dangerous. Clayton, 40, retired from Major League Baseball in 2008 after 17 seasons with the Giant...