Saturday, Feb. 28, 2009

Fantasy Baseball. Grand Prize: $100,000

For $1,300, you can secure a spot at the table for the National Fantasy Baseball Championship's March 21 draft, which you have to physically attend in one of four cities: New York City, Chicago, Las Vegas or Orlando, Fla. The fantasy participants are divided into 27 leagues, each consisting of 15 teams. Performance is based on five hitting categories — batting average, home runs, RBIs, stolen bases and runs — and five pitching categories — wins, saves, earned run average, strikeouts and WHIP ratio (walks plus hits, divided by innings pitched). League champs each snatch $5,000; the overall winner gets the $100,000 grand prize.

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