Next in the line of documentaries on the topic of fantasy baseball is "Silly Little Game", the most recent installment in ESPN's 30 for 30 series of sports documentaries.
Unlike earlier attempts that followed a bunch of nobodies playing the game ("Trading The Gator") or an obssessive nobody playing the game with a bunch of experts ("Fantasyland"), this one focusses on where it all began - the origins of the original Rotisserie League. As the blurb on ESPN's site says, "few to none of the millions of fantasy players who make up today’s multi-billion-dollar fantasy industry know anything about its origins, nor do they pay any respect or dividends to its founders. Now they will. "
It's a different spin on the fantasy baseball doc, and one I'm looking forward to seeing. Though I have my concerns after viewing the excerpt ESPN has posted, in which actors prortraying Dan Okrent, Lee Eisenberg, and other founding fathers at La Rotisserie Francais as swarthy chefs and waiters play baseball in the background. Huh??? I can only hope this is a non-representative clip; if the whole film is like this, I'll be magnificently disappointed.
"Silly Little Game" premieres on Tuesday April 20, at 7:00 Central, on ESPN. More information can be found at the film's website: http://30for30.espn.com/film/silly-little-game.html
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