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Article: Fantasy leagues face legal reality? You bet
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 28, 1991
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Sports fantasy leagues, in which some 1
million fans get to run their own teams, were dealt a dose of reality
by a legal opinion maintaining that they constitute a form of
gambling.
One of the founders of the Rotisserie League Baseball
Association - which takes its name from a now-defunct New York
eatery, where it began in earnest in 1980 - said the Florida attorney
general's recent ruling comes at the fantasy league world like a
brushback pitch.
Glen Waggoner, also a contributing editor to Esquire magazine
and a free-lance writer, said the Jan. 10 opinion from Attorney
General Bob Butterworth was the nation's first describing fantasy
leagues as gambling.
"I hope it ...