Presents
The Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame
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While Daniel Okrent is credited with
inventing fantasy baseball in the early 1980's, the game's true roots
can be traced back as far as the 1930's when a young writer named Jack
Kerouac "invented" his own private version of the game, keeping track of
various baseball records and creating his own baseball cards that were
used in his "Summer League", devised when the writer was just 11 years
old. Still, it isn't hard to imagine youngsters from previous
decades keeping track of their favorite players and perhaps wagering
with their friends as to which star would have the highest batting
average or record the most victories - I'll take Big Six, you take The
Big Train The following of baseball statistics is a time honored tradition dating back to the mid 1840's when the game's first box score appeared in the New York Morning News. Sure, it only tracked batters runs and outs, but it was a start, and a grand one that. Through the years the tracking of the statistics have grown, to the point where current fantasy owners can follow their teams "live" online and receive up to the second scoring for the scores of players the likely track on a nightly basis. It's true that every fantasy owner loves statistics at least a little, but the attraction is much more primal. It is really about winning: outsmarting your friends (drafting, trading, in-season roster moves) and showing off the knowledge one has accumulated throughout his years of being a fan. The Fantasy Baseball Hall of Fame is dedicated to those major league players who brought more winning to their Fantasy Owners than any other. Thank You! |