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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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Volume 5, Issue 100: Bringing It All Back Home

The title of this week’s newsletter would make you think that this is the 500th edition of this newsletter, but it is not: Longtime subscribers may remember that during the early days of Covid, we ran daily, unnumbered editions featuring stories from readers about how they were dealing with an unprecedented global crisis. Some of those stories were sad, some were hopeful, some were simply practica

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	How Lucky 3.77 avg rating — 29,922 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
	Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,927 ratings — published 2025 — 5 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 — 1,673 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 3.60 avg rating — 1,334 ratings — published 2023 — 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
	Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball 4.06 avg rating — 495 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 — 506 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 — 3 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
	Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride: A Novel it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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Will Leitch wrote a new blog post Volume 5, Issue 100: Bringing It All Back Home The title of this week’s newsletter would make you think that this is the 500th edition of this newsletter, but it is not: Longtime subscribers may re Read more of this blog post »
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Will Leitch rated a book it was amazing Glass Century by Ross Barkan	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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Will Leitch and 6 other people liked Jennifer ~ TarHeelReader's review of Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride: "4.5 stars How Lucky was phenomenal, written from the point of view of someone with a physical disability. I’ll never forget my time spent with Daniel and all of his insight. I feel the same about Lloyd and his story. Lloyd has served on the Atlanta Pol" Read more of this review »
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Will Leitch rated a book it was amazing Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 by Mitchell Zuckoff (Goodreads Author)	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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Will Leitch rated a book it was amazing The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 by Garrett M. Graff (Goodreads Author)	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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Will Leitch entered a giveaway Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride by Will Leitch (Goodreads Author)	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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Will Leitch rated a book it was amazing Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride by Will Leitch (Goodreads Author)	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
Each word in this book is locally sourced, free range, farm-to-page. No nouns were harmed in the production of this novel, and while the author can indeed confirm early, somewhat sensationalist press reports that a few participles were lightly scratc ...more
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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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More of This World or Maybe Another, by Barb Johnson

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Picking Over the Bones, by Judith Ireland

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The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James

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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

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How Lucky, by Will Leitch

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

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