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In 1985, the Grandstand Sports Services launched the first nationally available rotisserie baseball leagues online through Q-Link (later America Online). [citation needed] Between 1985 and 1996, the Grandstand continued to improve on the game and the technology by being the first to offer automated drafting, real-time scoring, real-time trading and transactions, and continuous leagues.
Daniel Okrent (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and editor.He is best known for having served as the first public editor of The New York Times newspaper, inventing Rotisserie League Baseball, and for writing several books (such as Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, which served as a major source for the 2011 Ken Burns/Lynn Novick miniseries Prohibition).
Modern fantasy baseball was developed and popularized in the 1980s by a group of journalists who created Rotisserie League Baseball in 1980. The league was named after the New York City restaurant La Rotisserie Française, where its founders met for lunch and first played the game. [12] Magazine writer-editor Daniel Okrent is credited with ...
Rotisserie baseball is turning the big 4-0, so a group of experts attempted to build the best lineup of the fantasy era (with a few limitations). Building lineups to celebrate fantasy's 40th ...
An avid baseball fan, Gethers is a founding member of the first Rotisserie Baseball League, the 1980 group that started the fantasy sports craze. His brother Eric is also a writer, and his father was a television producer. Gethers' other works include five novels under the pseudonym of Russell Andrews: Gideon, Icarus, Aphrodite, Midas and Hades.
The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series to be played in Major League Baseball. It matched the American League (AL) champion Boston Americans against the National League (NL) champion Pittsburgh Pirates [ note 1] in a best-of-nine series, with Boston prevailing five games to three, winning the last four.
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The Pittsburgh Burghers were a baseball team in the Players' League, a short-lived Major League that existed only for the 1890 season. The team included a number of players who had jumped from the National League 's Pittsburgh Alleghenys (now the Pittsburgh Pirates ), including Hall of Famers Pud Galvin, Ned Hanlon, and Jake Beckley.