I have been participating in an online fantasy baseball league for several years. The league goes back to before the Web, but we moved to an online format 6 years ago with sportsline.com.

My son (now 25) joined the league at 12 years old and I tagged along as a helper. Over the years we have become partners in running the team. This includes a live draft where we assemble at one owner's home in New Jersey in late March with 11 other league owners and select our respective team rosters. During the season a steady flow of trades and changes in rosters takes place online. In essence we have a community site of 12 team owners.

This community experience takes place similarly with millions of players around the world not only in baseball, but with basketball, hockey, and football too.

Daily and weekly stats are provided by sportsline for reasonable seasonal fees. The process is efficient as stats are delivered online everyday during the baseball season.

The nice thing for me, of course, is to have a nice way to communicate with my son and at the same time to have a blast managing a baseball team with our 25 fantasy major leaguers.

This season brought another bonus. We won the league championship for the first time. It was a close race, but a key trade made about month ago for a relief pitcher named Benitez put us over the top.