How on a flight from Hartford to Austin, Texas, Okrent came up with idea of collecting real-life Major League Baseball players and counting their real-life statistics for your make-believe team, all the while acting as a general manager. Every fantasy baseball player worth his or her salt knows the tale by now. Any look back on the start of fantasy baseball has to start with Daniel Okrent, right? His story is the most famous and has been told many times.
What about Daniel Okrent? What about the little green book? What about the Okrent Fenokees, La Rotisserie Française and the Getherswag Goners getting Neil Allen's 22 saves for $2 and winning the first-ever title? What about the fact that 1981 isn't even 40 years ago? I told him that if he wants me to celebrate the 40th anniversary of what we now call fantasy baseball, if he wants me to reflect on the past four decades of all of us getting to play "The Greatest Game for Baseball Fans Since Baseball," then I'm starting in 1981 with John Walsh. What he wants to know, he tells me, is what does this milestone mean to me? "It can be about whatever you want," Pierre says, pretending that there's a chance I might write something that wasn't about me. My first fantasy baseball article since I retired from writing about the game in 2014. We are discussing the fact that this spring is the 40th anniversary of the original rotisserie league, and Pierre wants me to write about it. I am talking with Pierre Becquey, ESPN's deputy editor for fantasy sports. Untold stories of 40 years of fantasy baseball
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