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    <![CDATA[Fantasyland: A Sportswriter's Obsessive Bid to Win the World's Most Ruthless Fantasy Baseball]]>
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    <![CDATA[  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 <em>Wall Street Journal</em>,  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.]]>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've wanted to read this since it came out and chose the weeks leading up to my own fantasy draft to finally do so.  Funny stuff, what with the characters (real people) involved and the obsessiveness that can take over your life if you play fantasy baseball.  The only reason I didn't give this 5 sta...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52938075">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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