Last year I worked with two students at the School of Information at Indiana University on a piece called “Sports Fans and their Information Gathering Habits: How Media Technologies Have Brought Fans Closer to Their Teams Over Time.” The piece has just been published in a collection edited by William Aspray and Barbara Hayes called Everyday Information: The Evolution of Information Seeking in America.

Our contribution to the volume provides an overview of sports media in the United States over the 19th and 20th century, and focused specifically on the emergence of fantasy sports leagues.