Name: Fantasyland
ISBN: 9780143038436

Sam Walker

Recounts a Wall Street Journal columnist's experiences with playing a season of fantasy baseball against a host of armchair contenders, during which he researched the activity's popularity as well as the factors, from statistics to human elements, that contribute to winning fantasy teams. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball League

Fantasyland

Every spring, millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the oddest, most obsessive, and most engrossing rituals in the sports pantheon: Rotisserie baseball, a fantasy game where armchair fans match wits by building their own teams. In 2004, Sam Walker, a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal, decided to explore this phenomenon by talking his way into Tout Wars, a league reserved for the nation’s top experts. The result is one of the most sheerly entertaining sports books in years and a matchless look into the heart and soul of our national pastime.

A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball

Barry Hess

I've just recently started playing rotisserie baseball after playing fantasy football for years. A few years ago I gave up fantasy football because I spent too much time on the game. I also kind of dislike football on general principle. I love baseball, however, and anything that adds to my enjoyment of the game seems worthwhile to me. In moderation.

Moderation is not the story in Fantasyland. Sam Walker spends tens of thousands of dollars trying to crack the nut that is Tout Wars, an invite-only, expert rotisserie league. The story starts slowly, but as a rotisserie player myself I was pretty engrossed by the middle and read quickly to the end. Great book for anyone with a strong interest in rotisserie baseball.

Fantasyland A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball League

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