Fantasy Baseball

The Wizard of Oz meets America's favorite pastime! Alex Metcalf must be dreaming. What else would explain why he's playing baseball for the Oz Cyclones, with Dorothy as his captain, in the Ever After Baseball Tournament? But Alex isn't dreaming; he's just from the real world. And winning the tournament might be his only chance to get back there, because the champions get a wish granted by the Wizard. Too bad Ever After's most notorious criminal, the Big Bad Wolf, is also after the wishes. And anyone who gets in his way gets eaten! From beloved baseball author Alan Gratz comes a novel in which classic literary characters are baseball crazy, and one real-world boy must face his fears and discover the surprising truth about himself.

Play smart. Play to win. Play like a champion.

The Fantasy Baseball season officially begins with the Fantasy Baseball Black Book 2021 Edition! Joe Pisapia and his crew are back for 2021 with a NEW edition of the 16-time #1 best-selling series. Joe Pisapia - fantasy sports analyst, award winning TV/radio/podcast host and creator of the revolutionary player evaluation tool Relative Position Value (RPV). Paul Sporer - RotoGraphs, Fangraphs, Host of Sleeper and the Bust PodcastChris Meaney - Fade the Noise (Head of Content)Eric Cross - Fantrax (Lead Baseball Writer)Chris Welsh - In This League Podcast, Prospect One PodcastBrian Entrekin - Benched with Bubba Podcast, LineStar MLB DFSAriel Cohen - Rotographs, FSWA 2019 Baseball Writer of the YearAaron Pags - Lead Writer Fantasy in Frames, Perfectly Framed PodcastMichael Simione - Fangraphs, RotoBallerThe NEW and expanded 2021 Fantasy Black Book features include: *Over 500+ Player Profiles with complete RPV breakdowns*100 Prospect Profiles for Dynasty Leagues*2021 Draft Strategies for ALL formats including season long roto, H2H Points, H2H roto categories and AuctionWhether you're new to fantasy baseball or a grizzled veteran looking for a leg up on the competition, the Fantasy Black Book is the definitive guide.

What happens when three financial industry whiz kids and certified baseball nuts take over an ailing major league franchise and implement the same strategies that fueled their success on Wall Street? In the case of the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays, an American League championship happens—the culmination of one of the greatest turnarounds in baseball history. In The Extra 2%, financial journalist and sportswriter Jonah Keri chronicles the remarkable story of one team’s Cinderella journey from divisional doormat to World Series contender. When former Goldman Sachs colleagues Stuart Sternberg and Matthew Silverman assumed control of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 2005, it looked as if they were buying the baseball equivalent of a penny stock. But the incoming regime came armed with a master plan: to leverage their skill at trading, valuation, and management to build a model twenty-first-century franchise that could compete with their bigger, stronger, richer rivals—and prevail. Together with “boy genius” general manager Andrew Friedman, the new Rays owners jettisoned the old ways of doing things, substituting their own innovative ideas about employee development, marketing and public relations, and personnel management. They exorcized the “devil” from the team’s nickname, developed metrics that let them take advantage of undervalued aspects of the game, like defense, and hired a forward-thinking field manager as dedicated to unconventional strategy as they were. By quantifying the game’s intangibles—that extra 2% that separates a winning organization from a losing one—they were able to deliver to Tampa Bay something that Billy Beane’s “Moneyball” had never brought to Oakland: an American League pennant. A book about what happens when you apply your business skills to your life’s passion, The Extra 2% is an informative and entertaining case study for any organization that wants to go from worst to first.

"Flockhart's books make math fun again. Teachers, students, and parents will love this program." —Jeffrey R. Thomas, founder and CEO, SportsBuff.com;president, Fantasy Sports Trade Association This workbook is designed to be used in conjunction with Fantasy Baseball and Mathematics: A Resource Guide for Teachers and Parents. The games and activities in Fantasy Baseball and Mathematics were created to get you excited about learning and practicing math, even if you are not a big sports fan. Here's how it works. You will create a Fantasy Baseball team by picking real-life players, and then follow your players' statistics and calculate your teams' total points using one of the equations your teacher provides. In addition to the basic Fantasy Baseball game, your workbook contains reproducible worksheets for extra practice on 46 different math concepts. So join the winning math team with Fantasy Baseball and Mathematics! Also available in the Fantasy Sports and Mathematics series: Fantasy Basketball and Mathematics Fantasy Football and Mathematics Fantasy Soccer and Mathematics

Recounts the author's experiences with playing a season of fantasy baseball against a host of armchair contenders, during which he researched the activity's popularity as well as the factors that contribute to winning fantasy teams.

Over 10 million people participate in fantasy baseball leagues each year and will spend an average of $120 to gain any advantage over the competition. This book shows how to create a comprehensive strategy, customized to the specific league. Readers will dominate their leagues with strategic advantages throughout

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Winner of the CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year “An instant sports classic.” —New York Post * “Stellar.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A true masterwork…880 pages of sheer baseball bliss.” —BookPage (starred review) * “This is a remarkable achievement.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) A magnum opus from acclaimed baseball writer Joe Posnanski, The Baseball 100 is an audacious, singular, and masterly book that took a lifetime to write. The entire story of baseball rings through a countdown of the 100 greatest players in history, with a foreword by George Will. Longer than Moby-Dick and nearly as ambitious,? The Baseball 100 is a one-of-a-kind work by award-winning sportswriter and lifelong student of the game Joe Posnanski. In the book’s introduction, Pulitzer Prize–winning commentator George F. Will marvels, “Posnanski must already have lived more than two hundred years. How else could he have acquired such a stock of illuminating facts and entertaining stories about the rich history of this endlessly fascinating sport?” Baseball’s legends come alive in these pages, which are not merely rankings but vibrant profiles of the game’s all-time greats. Posnanski dives into the biographies of iconic Hall of Famers, unfairly forgotten All-Stars, talents of today, and more. He doesn’t rely just on records and statistics—he lovingly retraces players’ origins, illuminates their characters, and places their accomplishments in the context of baseball’s past and present. Just how good a pitcher is Clayton Kershaw in the 21st-century game compared to Greg Maddux dueling with the juiced hitters of the nineties? How do the career and influence of Hank Aaron compare to Babe Ruth’s? Which player in the top ten most deserves to be resurrected from history? No compendium of baseball’s legendary geniuses could be complete without the players of the segregated Negro Leagues, men whose extraordinary careers were largely overlooked by sportswriters at the time and unjustly lost to history. Posnanski writes about the efforts of former Negro Leaguers to restore sidelined Black athletes to their due honor and draws upon the deep troves of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and extensive interviews with the likes of Buck O’Neil to illuminate the accomplishments of players such as pitchers Satchel Paige and Smokey Joe Williams; outfielders Oscar Charleston, Monte Irvin, and Cool Papa Bell; first baseman Buck Leonard; shortstop Pop Lloyd; catcher Josh Gibson; and many, many more. The Baseball 100 treats readers to the whole rich pageant of baseball history in a single volume. Engrossing, surprising, and heartfelt, it is a magisterial tribute to the game of baseball and the stars who have played it.