For most of the last 20 years, I have spent my summers participating in Rotisserie Baseball leagues.

Yep, I'm a fantasy baseball geek.

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It certainly isn't that I don't love baseball itself. I played in leagues with guys who didn't really like baseball much at all. For them, playing fantasy baseball was all about numbers -- statistics and dollars.

For 16 years, I was part of a league that had been around since the early '80s. That league lasted 25 years, and it was one of the saddest occurrences of my life when it ended in quite a bit of acrimony. I tried to start another league with the remnants of the other one, but it lasted only two seasons.

Along with my move to Georgia, that left me without a keeper league -- some leagues draft from scratch every year, others allow you to build teams from season to season -- for the first time since 1992.

Instead, I'm playing in more non-keeper leagues this season than all the leagues I've been in before put end to end.

<a href="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/362826463v3_225x225_Front.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-993" title="362826463v3_225x225_Front" src="http://mikerappaport.net/onevoice/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/362826463v3_225x225_Front.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="225" /></a>In addition to one league I've been playing in for four years now, I signed up for a number of leagues on a Website called <a title="Real Time Fantasy Sports" href="http://www.rtsports.com/grand-slam-fantasy-baseball" target="_self">Real Time Fantasy Sports</a>.

What's the number?

Twenty.

I did 20 different drafts online, and went to New York for the other one.

I'm concerned that it will be difficult to keep up with this many different leagues, but I have an even bigger concern. When you draft 21 different teams from the same overall player pool, you don't end up with the same players on each team. So even my favorite players are only on about a third of my teams, which means that anything they do well will hurt two-thirds of my teams.

I'll keep you posted on what happens.