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Premiering April 20th on ESPN....Silly Little Game, what looks to be the story of the modest beginnings of rotisserie baseball...

Here's an excerpt from the ESPN page:

Fantasy Sports is estimated to be a $4 billion dollar industry that boasts over 30 million participants and a league for almost every sport imaginable. But for all this success, the story of the game’s inception is little known. The modern fantasy leagues can be traced back to a group of writers and academics who met at La Rotisserie Francaise in New York City to form a baseball league of their own: The Rotisserie League. The game quickly grew in popularity, and with the growing use and attractiveness of the Internet, the “founding fathers” never foresaw how their creation would take off and ultimately leave them behind. Innovative filmmakers Adam Kurland and Lucas Jansen will chronicle the early development and ultimate explosion of Rotisserie Baseball, and shine a light on its mostly unnoticed innovators.

Knowing that the history of America is embroiled in Fantasy Sports (née Rotisserie) muck, it wasn’t so much a choice to make this film as it was our American duty to honor this world-changing almost-sport. Whether Fantasy got its start in the front office of the 1963 Raiders, the mind of a Harvard sociologist, ancient Polynesian customs, or (and this one is probably the truest) with eleven self-described “stat-crazed schmucks” in a mediocre French restaurant on New York’s upper East Side; few to none of the millions of fantasy players who make up today’s multi-billion-dollar fantasy industry know anything about its origins, nor do they pay any respect or dividends to its founders. Now they will.