The History of Fantasy Sports

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🗓️ 16 May 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Larry Schechter joins Jeff Erickson to discuss his new book, "The History of Fantasy Sports." (https://tinyurl.com/b63urwjx) --- 00:00 - The History of Fantasy Sports 03:00 - 18 Months of Research 04:20 - First Tabletop Games in 1800’s 05:20 - Difference between fantasy & Strat-O-Matic / APBA 08:00 - Paring Down to Make the Book 09:30 - FSTA / FSGA 13:00 - Founders of Rotisserie 19:00 - Early Reviews 22:30 - Early different formats 25:00 - Variations of the game 30:00 - Larry’s personal background - CDM 31:45 - Transitioning to LABR/Tout 34:30 - Mixed Leagues 35:40 - Football dwarfs baseball 37:30 - Role of the leagues / players’ associations 39:00 - AL ToutWars this year 42:30 - NFBC Main Events 43:20 - Corbin Carroll --- Sorare Promotional Copy Build a Collection. Chase Glory. Sign up for Sorare: MLB today and get 50% off up to $50 on your first Pro Cards. Play now! --- PrizePicks Download PrizePicks today and use code ROTOPOD for a first deposit match up to $100! Sign up now! Pick more. Pick less. It’s that easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You want to learn more about the history of our fantasy sports industry?
0:04.1	Who better to learn from one of the all-time champions?
0:07.0	A person who's written a book about how to win at fantasy baseball as well.
0:10.6	Now he has written a book about the history of fantasy sports.
0:13.6	He's Larry Schechter and he joins me next on the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball Podcast.
0:30.7	Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Rotowire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by our good friends from
0:34.7	So Rare and from prize picks.
0:37.1	Jeff Erickson here.
0:38.1	And I'm here with our good friend Larry Schechter, who has a new book out called The History of Fantasy
0:44.1	Sports. Larry, welcome. How are you? I'm good. How are you, Jeff? Doing well, doing well.
0:50.5	I wish my Tow Wars team was a little bit better. But other than that, I'm doing pretty well.
0:54.8	But I'm fascinated to read your book because I spend a good amount of time with you, and I know Peter Shanky spent a lot of time with you discussing a lot about our knowledge of the history of the industry and the in the hobby, not just the industry, but the hobby itself too.
1:08.7	And I like that you did this is like the most comprehensive history of our, of our game.
1:16.2	Yeah.
1:16.9	This, this is the first, it's not, I, I wouldn't say it's the most comprehensive.
1:22.0	I would say it's the first comprehensive history.
1:24.7	That was my, my goal was to write the entire history. How did we go from some ideas
1:30.4	people had years ago for games to where we are now, where we've got millions and millions of people
1:35.6	playing dozens and dozens of different games all over the world. And we got, you know,
1:41.6	websites and podcasts and analysts and serious XM radio and everything that we have now.
1:47.1	It's like, how did this happen?
1:49.6	And I've been playing since about 1990.
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