The Good Fite: A Memoir of Hunger, Faith, and Football
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The Good Fite: A Memoir of Hunger, Faith, and Football
Sale price
$42.99
Regular price $51.99
On Friday nights I was the biggest name in Waco, Texas. And I did not have a bed.
Louis Fite was the most famous high school football player in Waco, Texas. In 1990 he was named Associated Press and Texas Sports Writers Association Class 5A Player of the Year and selected to the Parade Magazine All-American team. The Waco Tribune-Herald led the Saturday sports page with his name every weekend in the fall.
He was also seventeen years old, sleeping on borrowed couches and under the bleachers at Paul Tyson Field, and counting on free breakfast and free lunch at school for the only two meals he could be sure of.
The Good Fite is the long version of how that boy — Compton-born, raised by his aunt and the block, sent east at twelve after three rounds in an alley — became the man who, thirty years later, runs the FITE CAMP youth football program back in the same Waco he came up hungry in. Friday-night carries for a plate of food. A cousin dead four days before the biggest game of his senior year.
A Baylor letter that didn't open the door. A Grey Cup in Baltimore. A camp in Waco. A door held open for the next kid coming behind him. I went through that so you don't have to. That is the book.
Louis Fite was born in Lynwood, California, raised in East Compton, and arrived in Waco at twelve. He is a 1990 AP and TSWA Class 5A Player of the Year, a Parade All-American, and a 1995 Grey Cup champion with the Baltimore Stallions.
He is the founder of FITE CAMP and lives in Houston with his wife and three children.
Louis Fite was the most famous high school football player in Waco, Texas. In 1990 he was named Associated Press and Texas Sports Writers Association Class 5A Player of the Year and selected to the Parade Magazine All-American team. The Waco Tribune-Herald led the Saturday sports page with his name every weekend in the fall.
He was also seventeen years old, sleeping on borrowed couches and under the bleachers at Paul Tyson Field, and counting on free breakfast and free lunch at school for the only two meals he could be sure of.
The Good Fite is the long version of how that boy — Compton-born, raised by his aunt and the block, sent east at twelve after three rounds in an alley — became the man who, thirty years later, runs the FITE CAMP youth football program back in the same Waco he came up hungry in. Friday-night carries for a plate of food. A cousin dead four days before the biggest game of his senior year.
A Baylor letter that didn't open the door. A Grey Cup in Baltimore. A camp in Waco. A door held open for the next kid coming behind him. I went through that so you don't have to. That is the book.
Louis Fite was born in Lynwood, California, raised in East Compton, and arrived in Waco at twelve. He is a 1990 AP and TSWA Class 5A Player of the Year, a Parade All-American, and a 1995 Grey Cup champion with the Baltimore Stallions.
He is the founder of FITE CAMP and lives in Houston with his wife and three children.