The idea was to have a draft, keep track of points by hand, and pull statistics out of the Sporting News magazine.

It was originally called "rotisserie baseball" after the restaurant they were dining in when the idea was born.

In the late 1990s, fantasy sports became available online bringing the Internet into the game of fantasy sports. In 2007, ESPN aired its first fantasy baseball preview, breaking down all the positions and showing the best and worst picks.

Today, 15 to 17 million Americans play fantasy sports, according to ESPN.com. Hundreds of online web sites are available to start leagues, and hundreds of fantasy preview magazines and TV shows also provide information.

Like the rest of the country, many students and teachers at Shores participate in fantasy sports.

Sophomore Steven Pelfrense has been playing fantasy baseball for a couple years now, and he said he still enjoys it.

"I started playing fantasy baseball a couple of years ago when my teammate and I made a team," Pelfresnse said. "It’s pretty fun. I’ll probably keep playing if I remember to update my team and check my scores."

Sophomore Darnell Longmire has been playing been playing fantasy football since seventh grade when his brother started doing it.

"Now, I’m so addicted to it that I participate in the live draft every year for my league on NFL.com, and I check it whenever I can," Longmire said. "I like playing fantasy football because it’s more fun and exciting to have a team full of your favorite players than just a normal team."

Sophomore Brandon Gue has been playing fantasy football for two years.

"I started playing fantasy football because it was something to do, and it involved football, and it’s fun to be other people. My favorite player is Mario Manningham because he’s good and went to Michigan," Gue said.

Although many people participate in fantasy sports, not all people like the idea.

"I don’t like professional sports because I don’t think they have the same integrity as college sports, so if played fantasy sports, I’d be a hypocrite," Dewitt said.

While men make up 93 percent of all fantasy sport participants, according to Rivals.com., sophomore Jake Dewitt is an exception to that statistic.

"I don’t play fantasy sports because I don’t even know what they are," sophomore Torrie Fett said. "And from what I’ve heard, they sound like a complete waste of time."

Some people, like Dewitt, say that sports are about the team not individual players, and the idea of creating a team based on individual players and statistics destroys that concept.

"Fantasy sports just make people follow the individual players instead of staying loyal to a team, and it just makes the cocky showboats cockier because people who are following them on fantasy teams are just supporting their bad habits," Dewitt said.

Rotisserie baseball certainly has grown since that night in New York all those years ago. Although the future of fantasy sports is a definite mystery, one thing is for certain, it is here to stay.