Eric C. Gray

Eric Gray is originally from Plainview, New York, and earned his BA from SUNY New Paltz. He came to San Francisco in 1974, where he began a 39-year career at the U.S. Department of Labor, administering job training and employment programs for disadvantaged youth, most of that time spent with the Job Corps program. He met his future wife, Lynn Rhodes, on his first day at the Department of Labor and never moved back to NY. Lynn and Eric have two adult children, Rachel in San Francisco and David in Washington, D.C. They are all baseball fans, along with David’s wife, Lisa, and their daughters Juliet and Vivian.

His hobbies include rock and roll, following politics, playing and watching baseball and basketball, hiking, and hanging out with friends and family. Bases to Bleachers is Eric's first book. Backyards to Ballparks is the second volume of his baseball stories, having saved some amazing stories and chapters and collecting even more from baseball's many fans from around the world. He is always soliciting more stories, so if Bases to Bleachers and Backyards to Ballparks bring your own great story to mind and you would like to contribute it for the next book, get in touch.