Baseball: Never Too Old To Play The Game

Baseball: Never Too Old To Play The Game- explores the role of baseball in our culture and our personal lives. Through Al Spector s 60 years of life, amateur baseball has helped provide him with deep friendships, life lessons, and an escape from the routine of the everyday life. Baseball: Never Too Old To Play The Game tells the story of a life s journey from sandlot games, through a youthful playing career, to organized senior baseball. Spector is not alone. For more than 125,000 players in the United States, baseball remains a vital part of their lives. They still play the game even though they are over 30 years old a significant number are into their 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond. Spector s book will be especially meaningful for seniors who loved baseball and played the game in their youth, and would like to get back in the game. This book will help them understand that baseball can be a lifelong sport. Baseball fans in general, both men and women, will appreciate the b00k. They will enjoy learning more about senior baseball and its players people that play for the pure joy of the game.

Herman Spector put a bat and ball in his son s hands as soon as he could hold them, and Al has not let go for 60 years. Al grew up in the back alleys, on the sandlots, and on the baseball fields of St. Louis, where he played youth, high school, American Legion, and college baseball. While he left the game from time to time because of conflicting life priorities and a temporary infatuation with softball, Al returned to playing baseball beginning in his early 40s and then again in his early 50s. Retiring from a 33-year career as an executive with the Procter & Gamble Company gave Al the time to play more and to write Baseball: Never Too Old the Play The Game. As he only half-jokingly says, I retired because work was getting in the way of playing baseball. Al plays about seventy-five baseball games a year. He and his wife, Ann, travel extensively, nationally and internationally, for baseball tournaments, to visit family (including two grandsons), and for other recreation. Al has begun work on several new book ideas, is researching his family tree, is addicted to crossword puzzles, and works out at the gym daily to fend off the reality of aging. When at home, Al volunteers as a management and quality assurance consultant with Every Child Succeeds, a prominent Cincinnati social services program. He also consults with for-profit companies and with other non-profit organizations.