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Fantasy expert : a baseball memoir, historical tell-all, and one stat geek's personal journey through heaven and hell / Ron Shandler.

by Shandler, Ron (Ronald), author.

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Chicago, Illinois : Truimph Books LLC, [2024]

Shandler, Ron (Ronald)

Fantasy baseball (Game) -- Biography.

Rotisserie League Baseball (Game)

Fantasy sports.

9781637275481 (hardcover) :

163727548X (hardcover) :

xx, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Backstory -- The founders -- Civil war -- The baseball association of the granite state -- Thanksgiving -- The next pioneers -- The golden age of fantasy media -- Seeds of discontent -- Marketing 101 -- The most accurate projections in the universe -- Meetings of the minds -- The great strike -- Building the mother ship -- LABR unrest -- The next wave -- The REBEL league -- Aftermath -- Davids and Goliaths -- Esprit de corps -- Welcome to McLean -- Sincerest form of flattery -- Realityland -- Cardinal rules -- Words -- Sodom and Gomorrah -- The best of times.

"Ron Shandler is a self-described rotoholic. In the beginning, he hoarded newspaper box scores and pored over every number at his disposal. Then came the compulsion to create his own numbers. A monthly newsletter expanded into an annual Baseball Forecaster book, which spawned a media company, websites, tournaments, and more. Part memoir, part madcap history, Fantasy Expert is a fascinating and wide-ranging look at the modern growth and development of the game that went from cottage industry to national obsession. In chronicling his own escalating journey from rotisserie baseball hobbyist to professional authority, Shandler tells parallel tales of the rise of fantasy sports, the expanding baseball information industry, the increasingly sophisticated technology employed to gain an edge, and the fellow rotoholics who make it all possible. He also delves into the impact of fantasy baseball on the sport of baseball itself."-- Amazon.

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