Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe
by Sam Walker
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Author: Sam WalkerEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-03-02
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 368
Book Reviews of Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball's Lunatic Fringe
Book Review: Not what the title suggests
Summary: 2 Stars
Although its clear from the editorial blurb here on Amazon that Sam Walker is NOT your 'everyman' type rotisserie player, thats not how this book was originally marketed and I can't believe how gushing the praise is for something that isn't at all what it purports to be.
I would not call the 'Lunatic Fringe' of fantasy baseball the 'Tout Wars' players, who mostly earn their livings from analysing baseball stats and selling their research in book form or through website subscriptions. Sam Walker himself is a sportswriter, albeit for the Wall Street Journal,whose access to the inner sanctums of baseball front offices and clubhouses is a million miles removed from the experience of fantasy baseball for 99.9 percent of its participants. The people he plays against in the book are to all intents and purposes Fantasy Sports Professionals.
I don't consider hiring a stats genius and a scouting guy for the season, then spending 40,000 dollars on watching spring training and various other road trips as representing anything that most fantasy players can identify with. The small introductory paragraphs for each chapter would have provided a much more entertaining look at the subject if Walker could have found a few hundred of those, as it is, the only real entertainment value from this book is discovering that Matt Berry really doesn't know what he's talking about, but has managed to sell himself as a fantasy expert anyway...which kind of sums up the whole subject really.
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