{"product_id":"fantasyland-isbn-9780143038436","title":"Fantasyland","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e,  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.A vivid journey into baseball’s bizarro world . . . Mr. Walker not only finds the humor in this world of the obsessed, he also finds the drama. (Dan Barry, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrilliantly funny. (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI have read many books on baseball, but none of them approach the delight, the zaniness, the lunacy, and the sheer reading pleasure of Sam Walker’s \u003ci\u003eFantasyland.\u003c\/i\u003e (Buzz Bissinger, author of \u003ci\u003eThree Nights in August\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFriday Night Lights\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most entertaining book ever written about pretend sports. (Chuck Klosterman, \u003ci\u003ePlay: The New York Times Sports Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e)Sam Walker is a senior special writer for \u003cb\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/b\u003e and appears frequently on \u003cb\u003eESPNews\u003c\/b\u003e.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302377410789,"sku":"NP9780143038436","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143038436.jpg?v=1767726723","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/fantasyland-isbn-9780143038436","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}