About this title: 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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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780670034284ISBN:0670034282
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. Light edgewear to dust jacket with a slight curl to the top of the front. Story of one man's obsession with rotisserie baseball. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780670034284ISBN:0670034282
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780670034284ISBN:0670034282
Description: New in new dust jacket. Excellent Condition! Remainder Mark, No Damage, 100% satisfaction guaranteed. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 354 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Pr, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780670034284ISBN:0670034282
Description: As New in As New jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very little wear at all; faint corner rubbing to the book & jacket. Quite clean. '[This book] is the record of one man's investigation of-and ultimate surrender to-a wildly popular and engrossing game that has been threatening to overtake traditional baseball in the passions it generates. ' 354 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Viking Adult
Date Published: 2006-03-02
ISBN-13:9780670034284ISBN:0670034282
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"I enjoy playing fantasy baseball (though I often wind up playing against people online that I don't know, since I live in a small town and know no other players), so I picked this one up at the library for some insight as to the relationships and connections made at the game's highest level. Walker has a good writing style, making this one very breezy, but I felt that too much of the book focused on the rather bland quirks of pro ballplayers and their reactions to fantasy baseball than on the game itself. Fun, but not quite the deep exploration of Roto league baseball (and its participants) that I expected."
Casual sports fan who isn't that into baseball - 3 stars as it's a well written and humorous book even if it's not up someone's alley. Would get lost a bit sometimes in the intricacies of the fantasy stats probably.
Heavy baseball fan but non-fantasy player - 4 stars. It's a great baseball book as the author takes advantage of his insider access and interviews players and coaches around the league, all with the goal of helping his fantasy team.
Heavy baseball fan and heavy fantasy sports player, like myself - 5 starts. The guy lived the the dreams by taking a year out of his life to do nothing more than try to win his fantasy baseball league. You see some of the intricacies of an experts only league, with most of the owners being very familiar names in the fantasy sports world. The back and forth with some of the players on Walkers team was very intriguing, with some guys being supportive and even asking for detailed feedback on themselves, and other guys just cursing him out. This sort of story seems to almost be the basis of some of the ESPN fantasy commercials where the players interacted directly with the fans/fantasy owners. In addition, the devolving of his personal life to become nothing more than things in the way of seeing how well his team is doing. If you like fantasy sports, it's a must read.
Fourth, the non-sports fan....would never pick this book up, and rightfully so - be bored silly probably and think it was all a bit ridiculous. That's why I don't know any of these people..."
"Here is a book that is as fun as the baseball season is long. A behind-the-scenes look at the very origins of fantasy baseball as we know it today. Walker is witty, his cast of "characters" lovable, and his seamless blending in and out of the reader's world into his own, that of baseball and its stars and money, is fantastic. Seamhead dorks and baseball novices will love this book. As Walker delves into sabermetrics/Jamesian baseball, it's not boring; it's riveting, and it's not condescending-its plain speak. Before you join a fantasy league, this is a must read. I would absolutely recommend this to non baseball fans, if such a person-gasp!-exists."
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