Fantasyland

Every spring millions of Americans prepare to take part in one of the oddest most obsessive and most engrossing rituals in the sports pantheon: Rotisserie baseball a fantasy game where armchair fans match wits by building their own teams. In 2004 Sam Walker a sports columnist for the Wall Street Journal decided to explore this phenomenon by talking his way into Tout Wars a league reserved for the nation’s top experts. The result is one of the most sheerly entertaining sports books in years and a matchless look into the heart and soul of our national pastime.