| 单词 | rotisserie league |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrotisserie league 3. North American. [ < the name of La Rotisserie Française, a restaurant in Manhattan, New York City, where early discussions of the formation of the league were held.] A game (originally using baseball statistics but in later use extended also to other sports) in which each participant selects an imaginary team from among the players in an existing league and scores points according to their actual performances. Chiefly attributive, esp. in rotisserie league. Cf. fantasy league at fantasy n. Additions.Rotisserie League Baseball is a proprietary name in the United States. ΚΠ 1980 Collects Calls Apr. 1/2 A new report claims that the heaviest coffee drinkers at the recent Rotisserie draft made the wildest picks and those who abstained kept their heads, their money and their judgment. 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 8 July b8/3 What George Steinbrenner is to the American League, Lee Eisenberg is to the Rotisserie League. His team, the Eisenberg Furriers, may exist only on paper, but it's leading the league. 1990 Boston Phoenix 27 Apr. a26/3 Ditch the numbers-crunching war you're fighting with USA Today for the hearts and minds of Rotisserie-baseball fans and frustrated accountants. 2001 Baseball Weekly (Electronic ed.) 20 June Matt Anderson's recent success as the closer for the Detroit Tigers..is a reminder of how well the strategy of drafting setup men can work—in Rotisserie baseball. < as lemmas |
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