Fantasy Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports from the Gu y Who's Lived It

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Fantasy football, fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, even fantasy sumo wrestling: the world of fantasy sports is huge, and still growing. Today, more than 35 million people in the United States and Canada spend hours upon hours each week on their fantasy sports teams. And as the Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst for ESPN, Matthew Berry is on the front lines of what has grown from a niche subculture into a national pastime.

In his New York Times-bestselling Fantasy Life, Berry celebrates every aspect of the fantasy sports world. Brilliant trash talk. Unbelievable trophies. Insane draft day locations. Shake-your-head-in-disbelief punishments. Ingenious attempts at cheating. And surprisingly uplifting stories that remind us why we play these games in the first place.

Written with the same award-winning style that has made Berry one of the most popular columnists on ESPN.com, Fantasy Life is a book for both hard-core fantasy players and people who have never played before. Between tales of love and hate, birth and death, tattoos and furry animal costumes, the White House Situation Room and a 126-pound golden pelican, Matthew chronicles his journey from a fourteen-year-old fantasy player to the face of fantasy sports for the largest sports media company in the world.

Fantasy will save your life. Fantasy will set you free. And fantasy life is most definitely better than real life. You’ll see.

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4.3
147 reviews
Bigdogtim 7
August 31, 2013
Matthew Berry was an excellent resource on how to play & win at FF. However, these days, he doesn't even rank in the top 20 for the Draft or the Season for columnist accuracy ratings. Better to use Fantasy Toolbox these days. Besides, ESPN makes you pay for insider info & that isn't even good enough to help you place in the top 3 in your League. There are better sites full of writers focused solely on Fantasy Sports. To to world is another great source. Berry said for my 1st 3 years playing Fantasy Football that I should not pick a QB until a late round and suggested of all QB's, Matt Hasselback w the Seahawks. Not good FF wisdom.
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Jeremy Burns
May 9, 2017
Hilarious, Witty and Uplifting Fantasy Life provides readers an entertaining read of how committed and fun it is to play fantasy sports. In addition, you will see how Matthew Berry grows up around fantasy sports and how it has such an impact to his life as it can with yours. The book does a good job in describing real-life fantasy leagues and some of the crazy things commissioners and fantasy players do in each of their leagues. Enjoy the laughs, the struggles and the strong bond that fantasy life describes.
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j m
August 2, 2014
Perfect read to get ready for the upcoming season. The submissions from all of the leagues are instant classics and Matt's personal touch about his life is heartwarming. Now lets get this season started.
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About the author

Universally regarded as one of the leading voices on fantasy sports, Matthew Berry is ESPN’s Senior Fantasy Sports Analyst. Known as the “Talented Mr. Roto,” he’s an Emmy winner for his work on ESPN2’s Fantasy Football Now. As one of the most popular columnists and podcasters on ESPN.com, he appears regularly on ESPN television and radio shows, including Sunday NFL Countdown, SportsCenter, and NFL Live. He is one of only four people to be in the Hall of Fame of both the Fantasy Sports Trade Association and the Fantasy Sports Writers Association.

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