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If "The Art of Fielding" is a baseball book that is not actually about baseball, "Fantasyland" is the rotisserie equivalent. Using humor and a reporter's insight, Sam Walker skillfully humanizes the otherwise geeky and obsessive culture of fantasy sports. Walker's stated purpose in deciding to "field" a fantasy team is to pit statistical analysis against human intuition. Thankfully for us, Walker trusts his gut and his writing, and the colorful cast of characters he incorporates into his story, prove that when you cut through the math (and money), baseball is still a uniquely human game in both the real world and the fantasyland of rotisserie sports.
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Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball League by Sam Walker
Taylor Ball, January 1, 2012
If "The Art of Fielding" is a baseball book that is not actually about baseball, "Fantasyland" is the rotisserie equivalent. Using humor and a reporter's insight, Sam Walker skillfully humanizes the otherwise geeky and obsessive culture of fantasy sports. Walker's stated purpose in deciding to "field" a fantasy team is to pit statistical analysis against human intuition. Thankfully for us, Walker trusts his gut and his writing, and the colorful cast of characters he incorporates into his story, prove that when you cut through the math (and money), baseball is still a uniquely human game in both the real world and the fantasyland of rotisserie sports.