| Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball League Contributor(s): Walker, Sam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0143038435 ISBN-13: 9780143038436 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: A "Wall Street Journal" writer spends a season in a fantasy baseball league to explore the inner workings and contagious passions of one of the country's most popular pursuits. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | Baseball - Essays & Writings - Games & Activities | Fantasy Sports |
| Dewey: 793.93 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 5.49" W x 8.47" (0.77 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |