Review — Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe

October 10, 2006

<p>&quot;<a onclick=”window.open(this.href, ‘_blank’, ‘width=329,height=500,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0’); return false” href=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/fntasyland.jpg”><img title=”Fntasyland” height=”151″ alt=”Fntasyland” src=”http://baseballbookshelf.mlblogs.com/my_weblog/images/fntasyland.jpg” width=”100″ border=”0″ style=”FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 5px 5px” /></a>Fantasy baseball was developed more than 20 years ago by a group of bored guys in the publishing field who decided they could do a better job of putting a winning team together than the jokers who actually do this sort of thing for a living.The first group of intrepid souls, led by Daniel Okrent, named the invention ‘Rotisserie’ baseball after the pub in which they used to meet. Since then, the concept has grown outrageously, both in variations on that first theme and number of participants.What gives? Why would otherwise (relatively) sane people (mostly middle-aged white males) waste their time on this stuff? That’s what Sam Walker, a writer for the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, seeks to discover in <em>Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball’s Lunatic Fringe</em>….&quot;</p>

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