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Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless

Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball League Paperback - 2007

by Walker, Sam

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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.

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Penguin Publishing Group, 2007. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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Summary

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.

From the publisher

Sam Walker is a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal and appears frequently on ESPNews.

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Under a hanging moon on the second Friday night in December, the streets of New Orleans are thick with the usual crowd of tap dancers, pickpockets, transvestites, police horses, and huggy drunks from Nova Scotia.

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A vivid journey into baseball’s bizarro world . . . Mr. Walker not only finds the humor in this world of the obsessed, he also finds the drama. (Dan Barry, The New York Times)

Brilliantly funny. (The Washington Post)

I have read many books on baseball, but none of them approach the delight, the zaniness, the lunacy, and the sheer reading pleasure of Sam Walker’s Fantasyland. (Buzz Bissinger, author of Three Nights in August and Friday Night Lights

The most entertaining book ever written about pretend sports. (Chuck Klosterman, Play: The New York Times Sports Magazine)

Citations

  • New York Times, 04/01/2007, Page 24

About the author

Sam Walker is a senior special writer for The Wall Street Journal and appears frequently on ESPNews.