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...born among the literary elite has already taken irreversible root among the undergraduate population of one of America’s most elite universities. Dan Okrent, first public editor of The New York Times, thought up the cruel sport, which came to be named after the Manhattan restaurant, La Rotiss??¯Â¿½rie Fran�aise, where he and his fellow New York cognoscenti (and members of the first-ever Roto league) gathered to lunch and talk baseball...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: .45 CALEBER: Appeal of Rotisserie Baseball Academic | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

That range of knowledge encompasses not only journalism but baseball as well. In the offseason of 1979-1980, Okrent drew up the rules for a new type of fantasy baseball and pitched it to a group of friends at the Rotiss??©rie Française restaurant in New York City. That game would become known as rotisserie baseball, familiar to the millions of fans who now play fantasy sports online. The invention would earn Okrent one of the first two spots in the Fantasy Sports Hall of Fame...

Author: By Anton S. Troianovski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Famed Editor Comes to Harvard | 1/20/2006 | See Source »

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