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Fantasy sports have undergone a remarkable evolution from their modest inception to becoming a global entertainment behemoth, captivating millions across the globe. In this discourse, we shall meticulously unravel the intricate tapestry of events and influential figures that catalyzed this transformation into the multi-billion-dollar industry it is today. Our esteemed guest, Larry Schechter, an eminent authority in fantasy sports, has not only authored the best-selling "Winning Fantasy Baseball" but has also chronicled the comprehensive history of this phenomenon in his latest literary work, "The History of Fantasy Sports." Through his insights and expertise, we shall explore the origins, pivotal milestones, and the societal implications of fantasy sports, shedding light on how this captivating hobby has permeated mainstream culture. I invite you to join us as we traverse this fascinating journey, delving into the elements that have indelibly shaped the landscape of fantasy sports.The podcast episode delves into the captivating realm of fantasy sports, a phenomenon that has become as quintessentially American as baseball and apple pie. The discussion centers around the origins of fantasy sports, tracing its evolution from a niche hobby into a multi-billion dollar industry that has captivated millions globally. The episode features an esteemed guest, Larry Schechner, a prominent figure in the fantasy sports arena, whose extensive experience encompasses being a celebrated author and successful player in the field. Through this dialogue, listeners gain insights into the historical context and significant milestones that have shaped the current landscape of fantasy sports, including the influential individuals and events that contributed to its burgeoning popularity. The conversation not only illuminates the past but also reflects on the present state of fantasy sports, underscoring its impact on fan engagement and the broader sports industry. Furthermore, the episode provides informative anecdotes and personal experiences that enrich the narrative, making it not only educational but also engaging for those unfamiliar with the intricacies of fantasy sports.Takeaways: The evolution of fantasy sports has transformed it into a multi-billion dollar global industry. Key figures, such as Larry Schechter and Dan Okrent, played pivotal roles in shaping fantasy sports history. Fantasy sports originated from simple games but have now become complex and widely recognized entertainment. Technological advancements, particularly the internet, revolutionized the way fans engage with fantasy sports today. Find everything One More Thing Here: : https://taplink.cc/beforeyougopodcastCompanies mentioned in this episode: Amazon CDM Sports USA Today Sporting News SiriusXM Radio DraftKings FanDuel This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Podcorn - https://podcorn.com/privacy

A PRETTY COMPLICATED ORGANISM—Like many of you, I was stunned by what happened on November 5th. It's gonna take me some time to reckon with what this all says about the values of a large portion of this country. As part of that reckoning—and for some much-needed relief—I've opted to spend less time with media in general for a bit. But on “the morning after,” I couldn't ignore an email I got from today's guest, New York magazine editor-in-chief David Haskell. [You can find it on our website].What struck me most about his note—which was sent to the magazine's million-and-a-half subscribers—was what it didn't say.There were no recriminations. Nothing about how Kamala Harris had failed to “read the room.”  Not a word about Joe Biden's unwillingness to step aside when he should have. No calls to “resist.” In fact, the hometown president-elect's name went unspoken (as it is here).What Haskell did say that left a mark on me was this:“I consider our jobs as magazine journalists a privilege at times like this.” I was an editor at Clay Felker's New York magazine, the editor-in-chief of Boston magazine, and I led the creative team at Inc. magazine. And it was there, at Inc. that I had a similar experience. It was 9/11.I wrote my monthly column in the haze that immediately followed the attacks, though it wouldn't appear in print until the December issue. It was titled, “Think Small. No Smaller.” In it, I urged our community of company builders to focus their attention on the things we can control. This is how it ended:What we can say for certain is that the arena over which any of us has control has, for now, grown smaller. In these smaller arenas, the challenge is to build, or rebuild, in ourselves and our organizations the quiet confidence that we still have the ability to get the right things done.For all the attention that gets paid to EICs, most of the work you do is done through the members of your team: writers, and editors, and designers, and so many others.My friend, Dan Okrent, the former Life magazine editor and Print Is Dead guest, once said, “Magazines bring us together into real communities.”—This episode is made possible by our friends at Mountain Gazette, Commercial Type, and Freeport Press. Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!) is a production of Magazeum LLC ©2021–2024

DUTCH MASTER—Dutch-born, California-raised designer Hans Teensma began his magazine career working alongside editor Terry McDonell at Outside magazine, which Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner launched in San Francisco in 1977.When Wenner sold Outside two years later, Teensma and McDonell headed to Denver to launch a new regional, Rocky Mountain Magazine, which would earn them the first of several ASME National Magazine Awards. On the move again, Teensma's next stop would be New England Monthly, another launch with another notable editor, Dan Okrent. The magazine was a huge hit, financially and critically, and won back-to-back ASME awards in 1986 and '87.Ready for a new challenge — and ready to call New England home — Teensma launched his own studio, Impress, in the tiny village of Williamsburg, Massachusetts. The studio has produced a wide range of projects, including startups and redesigns, as well as pursuing Teensma's passion for designing books.Since 1991, Teensma has been incredibly busy: He was part of a team that built a media empire for Disney, launching and producing Family Fun, Family PC, Wondertime, and Disney Magazine. He's designed dozens of books and redesigned almost as many magazines. And he continues to lead the creative vision of the critically-acclaimed nature journal, Orion.You might not know Teensma by name, but his network of deep friendships runs the gamut of media business royalty. Why? Because everybody loves Hans.When they designed the ideal temperament for survival in the magazine business, they might as well have used his DNA. He's survived a nearly 50-year career thanks to his wicked sense of humor, his deep well of decency, and above all, his unlimited reserves of grace.You're gonna love this guy. Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!) is a production of Magazeum LLC & MO.D ©2021–2024

Cheers to Professor Jackson's post Prohibition conversation with distinguished author Daniel Okrent! Dan is the the author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, winner of the American Historical Association's prize for the year's best book of American History when it was published in 2011. Last Call was a go-to book in the HTDS bibliography for episodes 157-160 as we researched and selected the stories to tell in these four podcast episodes we've just completed. Dan was also the first Public Editor of The New York Times, where he was charged with being the public's advocate for accurate and objective journalism by the paper. So Prof. Jackson couldn't resist the opportunity to get his perspective on the state of news reporting today which, as astute HTDS listeners know, is often called the first draft of history. Spoiler alert: they both agree one must be a critical thinker when it comes to the potential bias of the news media one consumes – helpful tool here from AdFontes. Dan Okrent is also author of The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America, and Great Fortune: The Epic of Rockefeller Center, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize in history.  Before his tenure at the Times, Okrent spent 13 years at Time Inc., where he was successively editor of Life magazine; corporate editor of new media; and corporate editor-at-large. Earlier in his career, he worked extensively in book and magazine publishing in various editorial and executive positions. He has held fellowships at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard (where he was, in addition, the Edward R. Murrow Visiting Lecturer in 2009-2010). ____ Connect with us on HTDSpodcast.com and go deep into episode bibliographies and book recommendations join discussions in our Facebook community get news and discounts from The HTDS Gazette  come see a live show get HTDS merch or become an HTDS premium member for bonus episodes and other perks. HTDS is part of the Airwave Media Network.  Interested in advertising on the History That Doesn't Suck? Email us at advertising@airwavemedia.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Back in April, 1966, Time magazine famously asked America the big question: “Is God Dead?” _____ Thirty years later, as Time Inc.'s Corporate Editor at Large, Dan Okrent posed an equally existential question: Is Print Dead? His answer: An unequivocal “yes.” _____ “Finished. Over. Full stop,” he declared in a 1999 lecture at the Columbia School of Journalism. _____ Despite that, it'd be unfair to call Okrent the Grim Reaper. (Just don't ask what he said about Detroit in the early 2000s). A lifelong realist, Okrent simply viewed digital delivery as the most sustainable path forward for magazines, thanks to the skyrocketing cost of paper, printing, and postage. Publishers, however, ignored Okrent's prophecy, and continued to feast on their circulation revenues while treating their digital efforts purely as supplemental to print. _____ “How do you say goodbye to that cash? You don't. And then you end up seeing what happened in the slaughter of the next 10, 15 years. And this was before the smartphone!” _____ Okrent made his name as the cofounder of the highly-acclaimed regional, New England Monthly, in 1984—his first job as a magazine editor. He went on to work at Time Inc., Life magazine, and The New York Times, where he served as ombudsman in the wake of the Jayson Blair plagiarism scandal. _____ He's the author of numerous books, including Great Fortune, a 2003 history of Rockefeller Center that was shortlisted for a Pulitzer Prize. _____ In this episode, Okrent talks about his personal board of advisors and the roles they've played in his life, about his career highs and low—including a “humiliating” bake-off he was part of when Sports Illustrated was looking for a new editor, about how he introduced the world to fantasy sports, but didn't make a dime, and how he later pivoted to fame and fortune “off” Broadway.

5 day tv delay (0:55) 2022 attendance (3:21) The third place Phillies (4:43) Baseball gods hate the Padres (6:00) Hot Astros (7:47) New stats? OPS (8:50) Downgrading RBIs (9:13) WHIP (10:50) Well that's WAR (11:22) Dan Okrent and fantasy (12:34) OAA, Gold Gloves and Juan Soto (14:05) Shohei in RF (18:36) Death of the double switch (19:05) The Battered Bastards of Baseball review (19:49) Albert Pujols is breaking records (21:25) Baseball simulator 1000 (25:58) Push out the fences (27:36) A non-fan watched a playoff game (31:08) BBB is the best (32:57) Losing teams? (34:54) How much are the A's worth? (35:27)

Dutch-born, California-raised designer Hans Teensma began his magazine career working alongside editor Terry McDonell at Outside magazine, which Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner launched in San Francisco in 1977. When Wenner sold Outside two years later, Teensma and McDonell headed to Denver to launch a new regional, Rocky Mountain Magazine, which would earn them the first of several ASME National Magazine Awards. On the move again, Teensma's next stop would be New England Monthly, another launch with another notable editor, Dan Okrent. The magazine was a huge hit, financially and critically, and won back-to-back ASME awards in 1986 and '87. Ready for a new challenge — and ready to call New England home — Teensma launched his own studio, Impress, in the tiny village of Williamsburg, Massachusetts. The studio has produced a wide range of projects, including startups and redesigns, as well as pursuing Teensma's passion for designing books. Since 1991, Teensma has been incredibly busy: He was part of a team that built a media empire for Disney, launching and producing Family Fun, Family PC, Wondertime, and Disney Magazine. He's designed dozens of books and redesigned almost as many magazines. And he continues to lead the creative vision of the critically-acclaimed nature journal Orion. You might not know Teensma by name, but his network of deep friendships runs the gamut of media business royalty. Why? Because everybody loves Hans. When they designed the ideal temperament for survival in the magazine business, they might as well have used his DNA. He's survived a nearly 50-year career thanks to his wicked sense of humor, his deep well of decency, and above all, his unlimited reserves of grace. You're gonna love this guy.

This episode features one of the most influential literary figures in baseball history, Dan Okrent. The founder of Rotisserie Baseball (now known as Fantasy Baseball), author, editor, and baseball intellectual (my own term) talked about the game today, steroids, new rules, and more about baseball. We also discuss his latest book, "The Guarded Gate", talking about eugenics, racism, and anti-immigrant sentiment in America, and how it affected two generations of Jews, Italians, and other European Immigrants

On this week's episode of SABRcast Rob Neyer is joined by writer and editor Dan Okrent. The pair discuss his baseball works including "The Ultimate Baseball Book," and "Nine Innings." They also discuss the creation of Rotisserie Baseball and the early days of the Bill James Abstract. Then Rob and SABR CEO Scott Bush discuss how a negative could turn into a positive for Mets fans. For show notes, extra content, and a list of what Rob's reading, visit the SABRcast website at https://sabr.org/sabrcast.

Facing the prospect of a season without fans in the stands, Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley console themselves and fight baseball withdrawal by revisiting classic accounts of going to games. The authors of three revered books based on single games—Arnold Hano, the author of A Day in the Bleachers (1955), Dan Okrent, the author of […]

In this episode of Counsel to Counsel, I take a break from the ordinary discussion of legal careers to speak with my father-in-law William Gamson.  In our interview, Bill talks about his career, his love of baseball and how he combined the two.  Bill Gamson is a sociologist who is well known for his work involving social movements and media framing.  He is also well known for developing several highly successful simulation games that he created in order to shift his own teaching away from a lecture model.  In addition, during the Vietnam War, Bill organized the first anti-war teach-ins at the University of Michigan. While many sociologists know Bill for his professional work and as a past president of the American Sociological Association, Bill is also a pioneer in the world of fantasy sports. In 1960, he formed a forerunner of the fantasy baseball league that he called The Baseball Seminar.  There is a direct connection from Bill’s game to the rotisserie leagues that took hold in the 1980s. Dan Okrent, who proposed the rules for a league to his friends in a New York City restaurant La Rotisserie Francaise in 1980, came up with the idea after talking to the Michigan historian Robert Sklar, a regular participant in William Gamson’s “Seminar”. Bill talks about how The Baseball Seminar grew in part from his academic understanding of statistics.  It also became a way for him to build professional relationships with academics all over the country. And it influenced Bill in developing the simulation game SIMSOC as a more effective way to teach his students about economic inequality, justice, diversity, trust, power dynamics, and leadership. There is a message here for lawyers:  if you find ways to enhance your career that go beyond the straight practice of law, you will have a more fulfilling career.  You’ll also make more connections, have more fun and you may even end up with a Wikipedia page!

本集討論藍鳥隊王牌 Marcus Stroman 的仲裁風波(00:59)、光芒隊休賽季操作背後的思維(06:42)、Eric Hosmer 與 J.D. Martinez 的新合約與其結構(18:57)、值得注意的自由球員合約(35:13)、聯盟為了加速比賽時間在新球季將上路的規則(42:16)，以及兩位主持人的「夢幻棒球經理人」（Fantasy Baseball）經驗談(45:45)。「人物我來講」單元將介紹第一屆「夢幻棒球經理人」聯盟創始人之一 Dan Okrent(01:03:18)。數據單元則分析響尾蛇隊主場 Chase Field 裝設加濕器帶來的影響(01:14:03)。

Historian Dan Okrent discusses Pauline Sabin and her effort to repeal prohibition

Dan Okrent, co-creator of "Old Jews Telling Jokes Onstage," talks somewhat seriously about the comedic off-Broadway production, or as he refers to it, his first project "specifically designed to make people happy." Episode 0030 June 26, 2012 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts