Leigh
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| Location | Atlanta, Georgia, United States |
| Introduction | This blog is a strange mix between my two favorite things --- writing and sports. I'm a screenwriter by day and a book writer by night. When I'm not battling Hollywood or writer's block, I take care of my family and help raise my son and share with him a love of sports. I fell in love with baseball in 1975, Game 6 of the World Series. Carlton Fisk hit a homer to beat the Reds. I was ten and far too sensitive and felt sorry for them. My sensitivity was rewarded in Game 7 when the Reds won the Series. I've been a baseball fan ever since, loving the Reds for awhile, now the Yankees, but really just baseball in general. I'm a baseball fan and a sports fan. A Mom and a Team Mom. I may be a girl, but I can throw a ball. For every Big League player who thanks his Dad for playing catch with him when he was eight, there's a Mom who drove him to his games, cheered his successes and agonized over his failures. All from an uncomfortable seat in the bleachers. |
| Interests | Sports, writing, travel. |
| Favorite movies | "A Cinderella Story" (because I wrote it!), "Jerry Maguire" (which I wish I wrote), "Matrix", and just about every sports movie ever made. |
| Favorite books | "Luckiest Man" and "Opening Day" by Jonathan Eig, "Moneyball" and "The Blind Side" by Michael Lewis, "Ted Williams" by Leigh Montville, "Mickey Mantle, America's Prodigal Son" by Tony Castro, "Joe DeMaggio" by Richard Ben Cramer, "The Soul of Baseball" and "The Machine" by Joe Posnanski and Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones' books. |