Rotisserie League Baseball

American  

Trademark.

1. a game in which participants compete by running imaginary baseball teams whose results are based on the actual performances of major-league players.

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Example Sentences

Daniel Okrent is many things — a prolific historian, co-writer of the hit comedy revue “Old Jews Telling Jokes,” an inventor of Rotisserie League Baseball and the first public editor of The New York Times.

From New York Times

And there’s Bob Sklar, who taught film history at NYU, and who was thoughtful and soft-spoken, a good friend, and along with me and a few others, a founding father of Rotisserie League Baseball.

From Time

On this week’s Out Loud podcast, Ben McGrath, a staff writer, and Daniel Okrent, the writer, editor, and inventor of Rotisserie League baseball, join Amelia Lester and David Haglund to assess the state of America’s national pastime.

From The New Yorker

La Rotisserie Française was also a favored dining spot for a group of sportswriters and fans who created a fantasy game that they called, in a nod to the restaurant, Rotisserie League Baseball.

From New York Times

Fantasy baseball got its start in 1980 with the development of Rotisserie League Baseball, named for a New York restaurant where a group of people, led by the longtime journalist Daniel Okrent, first played it.

From New York Times