Stephen Bishop will suit up as slugger David Justice in the Brad Pitt baseball movie “Moneyball,” which begins shooting in two weeks in Los Angeles.

The Columbia project is based on Michael Lewis’ 2003 nonfiction book about Oakland Athletics GM Billy Beane and his strategy for building a successful team without paying players enormous salaries.

A longtime member of the Atlanta Braves, Justice played his final MLB season, 2002, for the A’s, who made the playoffs that year. Robin Wright, Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman also star in the Bennett Miller-directed movie.

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