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Fantasyland

A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball

A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball

By Sam Walker

By Sam Walker

By Sam Walker

By Sam Walker

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Category: Sports | Games

Category: Sports | Games

Paperback $16.00

Feb 27, 2007 | ISBN 9780143038436

Ebook $12.99

Feb 27, 2007 | ISBN 9781101190708

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    About Fantasyland

    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.

    About Fantasyland

    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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    About Sam Walker

    Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal’s deputy editor for enterprise, the unit that oversees the paper’s in-depth page-one features and investigative reporting projects. A former reporter, columnist, and sports editor, Walker founded the Journal’s prizewinning daily sports coverage in 2009. He is… More about Sam Walker

    About Sam Walker

    Sam Walker is The Wall Street Journal’s deputy editor for enterprise, the unit that oversees the paper’s in-depth page-one features and investigative reporting projects. A former reporter, columnist, and sports editor, Walker founded the Journal’s prizewinning daily sports coverage in 2009. He is… More about Sam Walker

    Product Details

    Category: Sports | Games

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 27, 2007 | 368 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143038436

    Category: Sports | Games

    Ebook | $12.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Feb 27, 2007 | 368 Pages | ISBN 9781101190708

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    Praise

    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)

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