![]() ![]() “This is absolute wacko what goes on here,” said Guyette. “I’ve been studying for like the last month.” It’s not like you just do it with a day of studying,” said Willems before the draft. “You usually put in hours of studying before this draft. “You’re coming to unwrap your gifts, you get to draft the players.”Īnd you better study up long before the draft starts. “This is like christmas morning,” said Henrigillis. “That was always one of the fun parts, getting together with some of the guys and writing them all out,” said Schantz.Īnd every year they still love getting together to draft their teams, this year it took place at D2 in Hobart. “Now that I look back at it, some of the best times were getting together with the guys, doing the stats, sending out for pizza,” Henrigillis said. because that was time shared with each other. Took forever to get them done and then in 2007 (when they started keeping track online) I said yay here we go and it’s been great ever since.”ĭespite how grueling that was, they all enjoyed it deep down. “That was just grueling doing that by hand,” Guyette said. When we got together, it was all written in pencil or pen.” ![]() “We had go to get the newspapers and check the box scores,” Said Henrigillis. What they definitely do remember is how long it took to put stats together before fantasy sports went online – two full days. “I can’t even remember that far back,” laughed Dale Willhelm. “Oh god yea, Mike Schmidt,” Guyette said. Louis,” said league commissioner Jerry Henrigillis. “First player I took, Gary Templeton, San Diego Padres, was traded to St. Some remember their first selection for their team. “There might be somebody just as old, but there’s nobody older and we take great pride in that.”Īnd they all remember the first player taken in their first draft – Willie Wilson, an outfielder who starred for the Kansas City Royals. “In 1996, Daniel Okrent’s (the creator of rotisserie league baseball in 1979) group quit, that was their last year and I said wait a minute, that makes us the oldest league in the country, because we never stopped,” said Joe Guyette. The first fantasy baseball league began in 1970, but as far as they know, they're the oldest rotisserie league that is still running. They are a rotisserie league which is the most common way to play fantasy baseball, which means teams are ranked from first to last in different statistical categories. They have seven original members still remaining. The De Pere Clan fantasy baseball league is in it's 43 season (1981). “I see them often enough, but getting together like this for the draft, this is the most precious time of the whole baseball season. “It’s great,” said Mike Willems, who has been in the league since it’s inception. HOBART - Fantasy sports like football, basketball, soccer and baseball are played by many people around the world.įor one league here in the Green Bay area, through sickness, health and any other life complication – fantasy baseball has brought them together for decades. ![]()
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