Pork herder is unlikely king of fantasy baseball

Submitted by Randy Burgess on Wed, 2011-10-26 10:07

Idaho pig farmer Lindy Hinkelman is probably the highest-earning fantasy baseball player in the country, according to the New York Times.

This year the 59-year-old won the National Fantasy Baseball Championships for the second time — earning $100,000 on his $1,400 entry fee. He won the same competition in 2009, and has earned more than $300,000 in the last three years.

“Raising pigs and this baseball thing really go together,” he said. “There are certain things in farming: keeping track of productivity, indexes for your sows, the genetic lines there. To do well, you’ve got to be pretty proficient in numbers. Math has always been my strong suit. I can see things with the numbers.”