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Article: New fantasy leagues track celebrities in the tabloids

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October 16, 2006
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The founders of fantasy leagues could never have envisioned this. Nope, Daniel Okrent, one of the publishing world's glitterati who in 1979 was one of the original 10 founders of the first Rotisserie Baseball League, couldn't have.

Neither could former Oakland Raiders limited partner Bill Winkenbach, who along with former Oakland Tribune sports editor George Ross and beat reporter Scotty Stirling, became the daddy of all fantasy leagues in 1962 when he started the Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League.

Neither could the millions of fantasy league addicts, who today carpet these great United States with not just baseball and football fantasy leagues, but with ...

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