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Dan Okrent's written a bunch of excellent books, but he'll always be remembered for inventing Rotisserie baseball and The Hardball Times' Nick Fleder recently tracked down Okrent for an interview.
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While Mr. Okrent and others deserve credit for codifying the game...
…he has admitted elsewhere (not in this interview) that he first got the idea from the late, great film professor Robert Sklar, who invented a game involving collecting pitchers’ stats over the course of a season in the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Sklar was one of the great champions of the cultural study of cinema (when such a thing was not ubiquitous in an academic environment) and a great mentor and teacher, as well as one of the original members of the Rotisserie league, invited to participate by Okrent. Sklar died in a bicycling accident in Spain last fall (he was 78, I believe), and deserves credit as the “grandfather” of roto at the very least.
by jdscott on Jan 13, 2012 6:57 PM EST reply actions
Crack a can of 3.2 beer...
…and check out Okrent’s latest:
http://www.facebook.com/LastCallTheRiseAndFallofProhibition
"It's a pass so cunning you put a hat on it and call it a weasel" - #englishfootballjournalism
by Hot Cup Joe on Jan 13, 2012 11:32 PM EST reply actions
Baseball seems to attract historians, doesn't it?
by J0SER on Jan 14, 2012 6:04 PM EST up reply actions
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