Michael Schafer

Michael Schafer is a native of Ohio, Buckeye born and bred. Diverse, he has been as a substitute school teacher, worked in department stores from the loading docks on up to a department store manager, and in business offices of the auto dealership industry.

Additionally, Schafer has extensive writing experience as a guest column for his hometown daily newspaper The Alliance (Ohio) Review for more than a decade.

Schafer is also an ordained minister without a church assignment. And through it all, he has served as an umpire for various youth baseball programs in Ohio and now in Florida for more than forty years.

His published books include "2 Shots to the Chest," a murder/mystery set in western Kansas, "Life Behind The Mask: Umpire's Stories from Youth Baseball," a memoir of some experiences from over forty years of umpiring youth baseball in Ohio and Florida, and a short story, "Rosemary Murray is Dead."