Fantasy Baseball for Beginners

Introduction

Fantasy Baseball has very important place in the world of Fantasy Sports. Baseball being the nationalwide entertainment games, it is natural that many people in America take a lot of interest in the fantasy sports too. Fantasy Baseball begins with real world players and they are used as basis for fantasy sports. It is usually controlled by manager of the teams with the help of the real players accomplishments to play their games.

Short History of Fantasy Baseball

In earlier fantasy baseball is also called as "tabletop baseball". One of the best-known was Strat-o-Matic, which in 1963 began publishing a game containing customized baseball cards of Major League Baseball players with their stats from past seasons. The first public open fantasy baseball game, Dugout Derby, was developed in 1989 by Robert Barbiere and Brad Wendkos of Phoneworks who teamed with a West Coast Ad Agency to launch the game in twelve of the largest local newspapers across the country. Today, fantasy baseball is everywhere and shows no sign of declining.

Where to Play Fantasy Baseball?

There are thousands of fantasy baseball service providers on the internet, ranging from easy to play games to complex application. Mostly recommended is Yahoo or ESPN for beginners as both providers have easy to use user interfaces. The service is totally free; however user requires to sign up for a user profile that includes some basic personal information like name, age, gender etc. Once you create the profile the next step in the process is to join a private or public league. For those who do not have a group of friends interested in making a private league, the public league option will automatically find an open spot in an existing league.