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

Sam Walker

Penguin Group USA, Feb 27, 2007 - Games - 354 pages

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

User Review  - Paul - Goodreads

Fantasy Baseball is the reason I am behind on my reading goal for 2013 so I decided to hedge my bets and read a book about fantasy baseball. Truth be told I identified with this book far too much and ...

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

User Review  - Chris Pirie - Goodreads

Thought I would enjoy.. But was better than expected. Good look at fantasy ball and had me laughing

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball League
• Author: Sam Walker
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2007
• ISBN: 0143038435, 9780143038436
• Length: 354 pages
• Subjects: Games / Fantasy Sports; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings