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Will Leitch

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Will Leitch lives in Athens, Georgia with his family and is the author of seven books, including the novels Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride, How Lucky and The Time Has Come. He writes regularly for New York, MLB.com, The New York Times and the Washington Post. He is the founder of the late website Deadspin. He also writes a free weekly newsletter that you might enjoy at williamfleitch.substack.com. ...more

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	How Lucky 3.76 avg rating — 30,449 ratings — published 2021 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	21 Proms by David Levithan (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John Green, Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) 3.23 avg rating — 3,775 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride 3.94 avg rating — 2,859 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	God Save the Fan: How Preening Sportscasters, Athletes Who Speak in the Third Person, and the Occasional Convicted Quarterback Have Taken the Fun Out of Sports 3.71 avg rating — 1,672 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time Has Come 3.57 avg rating — 1,409 ratings — published 2023 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball 4.06 avg rating — 499 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catch 3.47 avg rating — 508 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Life As A Loser by Will Leitch (Goodreads Author), Tom Perrotta 3.71 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New York Magazine, May 17, 2010 - LeBron James by Will Leitch (Goodreads Author), Ira Boudway, Jesse Green 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Time Has Come, The by Will Leitch (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“True baseball fans do not cheer for their teams to win; they cheer for them not to lose. Victory does not come with joy, it comes with relief. Losing causes only pain.”
― Will Leitch

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“I am blessed. I am blessed because I am going to go long before any of them do. I am not going to have to grieve for them, because they are going to have to grieve for me.”
― Will Leitch, How Lucky

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“I was just growing old enough to start realizing my own limitations, which is the first step to dying, I think.”
― Will Leitch , Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball

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What shall we read in November, 2024? Books published after 1990

More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson

9 votes 25.0%

Picking Over the Bones, by Judith Ireland

8 votes 22.2%

The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

8 votes 22.2%

Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

4 votes 11.1%

How Lucky, by Will Leitch

4 votes 11.1%

Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood, by Horton Foote

3 votes 8.3%

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