Who is this guy?

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 and is on the Board of Directors of Every Child Succeeds, a prominent Cincinnati social services program. He is also volunteering as a consultant for the Cincinnati Initiative to Reduce Violence.  For his community work, Al was selected by the Cincinnati United Way for its Impact Leadership Award for 2006.  He also consults with for-profit companies and with other non-profit organizations.

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