That time is here for the billion dollar a year fantasy sports industry: next month marks the 50th birthday of Strat-O-Matic, the cards and dice game that got fantasy sports off the ground before computers took over.
Glanville, who will be hawking the paperback version of his book, The Game From Where I Stand at the Feb. 12 convention, became a Strat-O-Matic freak in the mid-70s, when he was barely out of his toddler years.