Book Signing with Louis Fite

We are excited to welcome Waco football legend and founder of FITE CAMP, Louis Fite, into the shop to sign copies of his new memoir, The Good Fite. He will be at the shop from 4-5pm on Sunday, July 12th signing books, taking pictures, and sharing stories and inspiration with guests.

About the Book:

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.

About the Author:

Born in Lynwood, California, raised in East Compton, and arrived in Waco at twelve. As a senior at Waco High School in 1990, he rushed for 2,532 yards and was named the Associated Press and Texas Sports Writers Association Class 5A Player of the Year and a Parade Magazine All-American.

He played junior-college football at Navarro College and four-year ball at Texas A&M-Kingsville, where his somersault touchdown against Central Oklahoma ran on national television. In 1995 he was a member of the Grey Cup–winning Baltimore Stallions of the Canadian Football League.

He went on to coach at Riverside Community College in California and Bishop Dunne Catholic School in Dallas, and is the founder of FITE CAMP, the youth football and life-coaching program he has run since 2011, now based in Houston and traveling each year to major Texas cities.

He lives in Houston with his wife and three children.