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Jack Kerouac’s Secret, Obsessive Fantasy Baseball Hobby

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“Bear in mind, fantasy baseball fans, that with the season about to start up again, you shouldn’t feel like you have to take any grief for enjoying the game. It counts among its enthusiasts no less a luminary than Jack Kerouac, author of On The Road and The Dharma Bums, and he didn’t just enjoy it, he arguably invented it. The New York Public library devoted an exhibition to Kerouac’s near-lifelong hobby revealing how the writer invented an elaborate means of experiencing the joys of America’s National Pastime all on his own.”  Click here for more.