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Title: Gift Ideas for the Baseball Fan
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Skipjack - December 8, 2009 12:11 PM (GMT)
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FANTASYLAND: A SPORTSWRITER’S OBSESSIVE BID TO WIN THE WORLD’S MOST RUTHLESS FANTASY BASEBALL, by Sam Walker (Penguin, 2007)
Sam Walker thought he had the edge in his fantasy baseball tournament because, as a writer for The Wall Street Journal, he was able to talk to the players and coaches as well as use all the stats available to his competition. This is the laughable and lunatic story of how it didn’t work out at all the way he had planned. In the end it offers some insight into real-world baseball that, according to Booklist’s starred review, “gives his account of fantasy fanaticism an unexpected and satisfying depth.”


I'm putting it on my Christmas list.

Any other ideas out there?

stanhouse - December 8, 2009 02:02 PM (GMT)
That's a great book. In fact, you can borrow it if you'd like.

Skipjack - December 8, 2009 08:31 PM (GMT)
QUOTE (stanhouse @ Dec 8 2009, 10:02 AM)
That's a great book. In fact, you can borrow it if you'd like.

Thank you Stanhouse, I'd like very much to borrow it.

Skipjack - January 15, 2010 02:23 PM (GMT)
The book was great. Thanks for the use of it Stanhouse.

My dog, Casey, chewed the corner a bit, well… actually a lot, but I've taped back all of the pieces that I could find or coax from him…looks like a bit of hot dog on a couple of the back pages…




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