Bob Wilber

Bob Wilber grew up aspiring to follow in his father’s baseball footsteps, and while he was able to secure a full college scholarship and later spend parts of six years in professional ball, as a player, coach, and scout, his mother’s writing, communications, and public relations skills were what eventually defined his career. After a successful and adventurous sports-marketing trek through the sports-apparel business, agency work, and professional indoor soccer, he saw his first drag race as he closed in on his 40th birthday. Little did he know that he’d go on to spend 20 consecutive years as a team manager and PR representative for Del Worsham and then Tim Wilkerson, two of the most popular Funny Car drivers on the NHRA tour. At the conclusion of the 2015 season, Bob ended his drag racing run in order to take on the lifelong dream of writing his autobiography, "Bats, Balls, & Burnouts."

In 2019 Wilber took on the challenge of his second book, and branched out into an entirely new and more challenging genre. His historical fiction novel "How Far?" is written in the voices of two fictional characters; a baseball player from Southern California and a hockey player from Roseau, Minnesota. The two relate their tales and how their lives intersected in the first person, as if they had written the book themselves. With historical fiction in mind, Wilber melded the two fictional characters into real situations, places, and people. "How Far" was published in 2022, by Outskirts Press.