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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- Title Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball League
- Author Walker, Sam
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, NY
- Date 2007
- Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0143038435I3N00
- ISBN 9780143038436 / 0143038435
- Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
- Dimensions 8.47 x 5.49 x 0.82 in (21.51 x 13.94 x 2.08 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 793.93
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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 nations 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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- New York Times, 04/01/2007, Page 24