Wait Till Next Year
 First edition | |
| Author |
William Goldman Mike Lupica |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Pages | 363 |
| ISBN | 0-553-05319-1 |
Wait Till Next Year is a 1988 memoir by Mike Lupica and William Goldman.
Lupica and Goldman had been friends for thirty years when Lupica suggested to Goldman they collaborate on a book together, from his point of view and Goldman's point of view. Goldman:
I wanted to be a sports columnist when I was a kid and then I learned more about what they did for a living and I decided I didn't want to do it. You have to go see all that shit. It's fun to go to a ball game occasionally. What was great, the year I did the book with Lupica, was I had press passes so I could go sit with all those people whose columns I read and watch a baseball game or a football game or a basketball game.[1]
Goldman says they would do alternate chapters. "I would eventually show him what I had and he would show me what he had but for the most part, we kept away from each other. We'd talk all the time."[2]
Goldman says the book "was a total flop - it didn't work commercially - but it was a wonderful time for me."[3]
References
- Egan, Sean, William Goldman: The Reluctant Storyteller, Bear Manor Media 2014