THE SECOND OLDEST FANTASY BASEBALL LEAGUE. I am an original member of the second oldest fantasy baseball league in the country. Actually we must be tied for second with some other leagues. (There are apparently over ten million leagues now.) What happened was that the first ever league, the “Rotisserie League”, founded in 1980, was written up in the off season before the 1981 season. Our league began in 1981.. That first year one of the categories we used was errors. The scorekeepers had to go through every box score for the season to calculate the standings for that category because there were no satisfactory compilations available. This Wikipedia article says that some attribute much of the early success of USA Today to the fact that the newspaper was sought out by Rotisserie league participants because their box scores were so much superior to those in other newspapers. For years now our league has included the children and even the grandchildren of the early members. We will be getting together again tomorrow.
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Hi,
Are you guys (and gals) still together? We just had our belated 2011 end of the season bash celebrating our 28th year. We started in 1984. Have a trophy with the names of 28 Champions and all the season stats etc. There are 8 teams including three originals.
We are the Hunnewell League using ESPN for our site. I remember compiling stats every couple weeks to see where we all stood it was already outdated. Now it is up to the pitch.
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