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sep 05 Learn More On the Road Released


Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road hit shelves on this day in 1957. The author was secretly a huge fantasy baseball nerd. In fact, he created his own card-based game that he played all by himself for years. It was extremely thorough: he figured in everything from player stats and skills to contract disputes. The Beats dug fantasy sports? Suddenly that old box of Strat-O-Matic baseball in your grandpa's closet doesn't seem so silly.

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