Glen Waggoner's Rotisserie League Baseball should be the starting point for any serious fantasy baseball player's scouting report. For starters -- but I'm also talking relievers -- these guys invented the game!!! Filled with crisp writing that is not only chock full of essential insider's info but is also entertaining and funny, Waggoner and his group of supporting writers -- which include various Rotisserie experts like John Benson and Mark Batterman -- deliver what every Rotisserie player needs: the rules of the game, all of the stats you'll need at your fingertips on draft day, expert analysis and the wining strategies from the only book that can claim 18 years of roti-experience

I can find whatever I need in this book, from veterans to rookies to minor leaguers

This book is a classic. It's the finest example of life-as-a-golf-game literature as I've ever seen. Bravo! And fore!

If you are at the beginning of your golfing experience, go to your local library and check out whatever they have on the golf swing and golf mechanics in general. Then, after you have some knowledge of the swing and have started to understand what you want to be doing during the swing, come back to your computer and buy this book. It teaches the basic mechanics also so you will have that foundation, but then Flick stresses a much under-taught lesson. The lesson of feeling your game. You have to be able to feel the rhythm of the swing, the ability to connect with the ball rather than whack or stab it. It is an invaluable lesson to learn and one that you will continually need to refer to.

If you are a more experienced golfer, you may have read a hundred books and still find yourself reverting or being absolutely baffled because you can't wuite figure out what you're doing wrong. Well, you need to feel your swing. This book will help where the rest have left you standing in the bunker.

I have read countless books on golf. This one is short on pretty pictures but large on the magic that we all who call ourselves golfers are after. It's that moment of impact when you know that you felt the club face meet with the ball so cleanly that you barely felt it. If you know the moment I'm talking about and you want to feel it more often, this book is for you.

I own and have read over 20 golf instruction books (I'm a nut for this stuff!). With the exception of Manuel de la Torre's "Understanding the Golf Swing" (for which I wrote the first Amazon review) it is by far the best golf book I have ever read. Flick's instruction, swing drills, humor and motivational messages are all right on. This book is not only instructive, but funny; it is a delight to read, and to put into practice. I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone wishing to improve their game and have more fun in the process. By the way, the "4-step", "left foot, right toe", and "left hand off after impact" drills have improved my golf swing immeasurably. Thanks Jim!

Jim Flick has a special ability to teach golf to guys like me (12 handicapper). His ability to verbalize concepts is excellent and I love his emphasis on feel while playing golf. After using this book as my golf "bible" for a number of months I have definately improved my tempo, feel, touch around the greens, and above all else: my scoring.

As a former professional musician I know Jim speaks the truth when he discusses the difference between the practice grounds and the playing grounds.... thinking about technique on the golf course is not playing golf - thats practicing on the course. Thinking about what notes to play on stage is not playing music - it's practicing it on stage..... they are very different things.

I can not reccomend this book enough - I'm giving away my other golf books (way too many) except this one and my Bob rotella books.....

This book is a "must-have" for anyone who loves the game. It not only explains the rules in detail, it often gives the history of the rules as well.

The authors clearly did their research in the writing of this book. It is full of baseball anecdotes that are both informative and educational about the history of our national pastime.

A truly enjoyable book. I highly recommend it.

This is one of the weakest links of the Diamond Library. Attempts to be entertaining (sometimes) and the data base is nonexistant. The information consists of mostly repetitive one liners, most definitely not worth the money. The John Benson A To Z Book is a far better book, even though it may cost a little more. This book may have been written by "the Founding Fathers" but it will surely not help you in Rotisserie League. While I have bought and enjoyed previous versions of this book, I probably will not buy the 2002 version. Their day is done.

Where to begin to critique this effort of the Diamond Library (John Benson's boutique) to separate you from your money.

There is a tremendous difference between publishing statistics soon after the end of the season, as STATS does with some of their books, and publishing analysis soon after the end of the season. Because this book was published in November, the player comments apparently were written before the season ended. For instance Tyler Houston's blurb mentions his Wrigley Field advantage, even though he was traded to Cleveland late in the season. None of the early off season transactions are addressed. The player comments also suffer from terminal cuteness, as the authors try to emulate the light tone of earlier editions by Waggoner et al. The current editors are just not as consistently clever, although they occasionally get off a good one-liner or pun.

Nor are they as attentive. There are numerous typos in the book. These range from simply annoying misspellings, to transposing entire stat lines between players (Dave Veres for Billy Wagner, Chuck Knoblach for Jeff Kent to name two). This really limits the book's utility as a reference.

If you buy the book intent on using its prices for your draft you will certainly lose. Most are unrealistic, perhaps partly due to the early publishing date.

The section on minor league prospects is the most informative section of the book, and is probably a part that many readers will skim over.

Essentially all of the information in this book is also in earlier editions of the same book (the rules) or appears with minimal modification in other books written or co-written by John Benson. If you have never before played rotisserie baseball, you should buy the book once, for the rules. If you are an experienced player you should look elsewhere for helpful analysis.

This book has been surpassed by the Benson A To Z Scouting Book for rotisserie purposes. However, there are a lot of useful tidbits and funny one liners to make this a worthwhile purchase, especially during the off-season when we are baseball starved. The book is in the same format as previous years with no dramatic changes. This book is usually not as thorough or as accurate as the John Benson A To Z Guide but it is usually better than the plethora of fantasy baseball magazines that come out each year at this time and certainly is a lot funnier with all of the capsule reviews and one-liners. This book has been around the longest of all of the rotisserie books and it is probably because of the wit and humor that goes into making this.

The Benson A To Z Guide *used* to be one of the most comprehensive guides to baseball players on the market. They *used* to evaluate all sorts of players from the best major league stars to some up and coming minor leaguers. This year, the focus has shifted to rotisserie leagues combining with the Rotisserie League Handbook. The Handbook in recent years has taken a serious nosedive in quality with a lot of superficial information and jokes. This combination product doesn't work. There is not as much depth in terms of the numbers of players covered by A To Z Guide or in information. One thing we don't need is the Roto rules explained yet again. They should have kept the original format of the A To Z Guide and done away with the Roto Rulebook entirely. This book is a huge disappointment and I hope they reconsider this viability of this format.

There is a voluminous amount of sources for information on fantasy league baseball available to fans, especially with the advent of the Internet. What used to set Rotisserie League Baseball apart from the rest was the irreverent, witty bios on the players. It was the closest thing to laugh-out-loud literature one could find on the National Pastime.

Alas, someone must have approached the authors and told them that the book needed to be more serious in light of previously said sources. The result is a bland concoction of stale statistics and rookie projections. Given the fact that a book needs more time to publish than does a magazine, it is rendered irrelevant.

Said to say, I believe I've purchased my last edition of Rotisserie League Baseball.

If you grab this book expecting to get the latest news on player movement, position battles, and up-to-date player values, you will be disappointed. If you are a person who thinks you know it all about rotisserie baseball strategy, you, too, will be disappointed as this book spends a great deal of time talking strategy for off-season, draft day, and in-season. I personally enjoyed the read on strategy and am constantly reminded of areas I must stay focussed upon. The player profiles are thin and the player dollar values can be debated, but this book is written in the 4th quarter of 2002. We are a long way from Spring Training, so I use this as a starting point in the 2003 season and will use my favorite web-sites and projections for draft preparations. I do recommend this book for the average rotisserie baseball player, as its strategy discussions are valuable, and its player discussions are a good start. For the fanatic, don't buy this book and get disappointed. Instead, look to Ron Shandler's Baseball Forecaster 2003 Annual or Baseball Prospectus for all the analytical player information you can shake a bat at.