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Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe

Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe

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Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe

by Sam Walker

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9780670034284
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Viking Press, 2006. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine, touch of shelf wear. In fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 354 pp. with index. Sportswriter Sam Walker, author of a weekly sports colume in a major newspaper, accepted an invitation to play in a "rotisserie" baseball laegue populated by some of the nation's most renowned fantasy experts. Though a fantasy league novice, he figured he could use his expertise and his contacts to win the competition. As a result, he spent tens of thousands of dollars, traveled some nineteen thousand miles, interogated nearly two hundred major-leaguers, missed three weddings and a funeral and ignored a fire raging in a next-dorr building. Among the things he learned was that his competiton was far more than insulated seamheads and that their analysis and research was being taken seriously by major-league teams.

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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.

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe
Author
Sam Walker
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
fine
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
0670034282
ISBN 13
9780670034284
Publisher
Viking Press
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published
2006
Keywords
baseball, fantasy sports, rotisserie
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Baseball;

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