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Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball |  | Author: Sam Walker
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Rating:  48 reviews
Sales Rank: 407542
Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0143038435
Dewey Decimal Number: 793
EAN: 9780143038436
ASIN: 0143038435
Publication Date: February 27, 2007
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Product 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 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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 A true fantasy book. April 22, 2010
Chris Gaines (Tustin, CA)
This entertaining tale of a fantasy become semi-reality hits many entertaining cords to be enjoy.
 Couldn't stop smiling & chuckling April 21, 2010
Scorpio M. (NYC)
Hilariously funny!! I am not a stat geek and have never played in a Roto league before. You don't have to, this book is simply fun, filled with funny moments with baseball players and captures the intensity of Fantasy Baseball fanatics. Walker writes with a humbleness that makes him feel like an old pal, you'll be rooting for him before long.
P.S. MoneyBall lovers will enjoy this book immensely.
 Not what the title suggests December 28, 2009
Stephen Veasey (Stocksfield UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Although its clear from the editorial blurb here on Amazon that Sam Walker is NOT your 'everyman' type rotisserie player, thats not how this book was originally marketed and I can't believe how gushing the praise is for something that isn't at all what it purports to be.
I would not call the 'Lunatic Fringe' of fantasy baseball the 'Tout Wars' players, who mostly earn their livings from analysing baseball stats and selling their research in book form or through website subscriptions. Sam Walker himself is a sportswriter, albeit for the Wall Street Journal,whose access to the inner sanctums of baseball front offices and clubhouses is a million miles removed from the experience of fantasy baseball for 99.9 percent of its participants. The people he plays against in the book are to all intents and purposes Fantasy Sports Professionals.
I don't consider hiring a stats genius and a scouting guy for the season, then spending 40,000 dollars on watching spring training and various other road trips as representing anything that most fantasy players can identify with. The small introductory paragraphs for each chapter would have provided a much more entertaining look at the subject if Walker could have found a few hundred of those, as it is, the only real entertainment value from this book is discovering that Matt Berry really doesn't know what he's talking about, but has managed to sell himself as a fantasy expert anyway...which kind of sums up the whole subject really.
An insincere effort by the author November 18, 2009
Screamin' Steve (Florida, United States)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
First, I admit I am a fantasy baseball fanatic. As such, I looked forward to reading this book. I was very disappointed by this arrogant author's obvious style of embellishing the stories in the book. I suspect he used creative license to produce a successful book. He approached his subject like a writing assignment and not an adventure. I have more fantasy baseball knowledge in my little finger than he will ever have in his lifetime!
For the Fantasy Baseball Participant! April 25, 2009
Anthony E. Lorenzo III (Brooklyn, NY USA)
I laughed out loud countless times. Walker's exploits into building an AL only fantasy team to go against some of the top Fantasy Owners in the world is a great read, especially if you are a big baseball fan like myself.
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