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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 an important personal assignment. Over the course of 2016 he wrote his autobiography, entitled “Bats, Balls, & Burnouts.” It was released in late May, 2017 and is available on Amazon.com and other major online book retailers, in both printed and digital formats. For the last year, Bob has been writing a new book, in the “historical fiction” genre. It’s entitled “How Far?” and was published on January 22, 2022. It is available on Amazon.com. Bob’s website was launched on February 10, 2022. Visit Bob’s Site to learn more about his life and his books.

The Blog We’ve Been Waiting For

May 25th, 2017

I’ve been writing about my book, and the enormous challenges it put in front of me, for so long the date is burned into my mental hard drive. The date is January 6, 2016. That’s the day I sat down at my desk at our Liberty Lake, Wash. home and began to write. I knew the book was going to be chronological, so I’d start with my earliest memories, but did I know exactly what words were going to find their way from my brain to my fingers and then onto the manuscript? No. I had no clue.

Q &A with TPGF Fellow Caitlin Fischer

May 24th, 2017

Caitlin and the Foundation connected early last summer with the assistance of TPGF Advisor Hank Torbert. She is a UVA graduate whose hometown is Leesburg, VA. Early on Caitlin assisted TPGF with the TPGF Golf Tournament at TPC Potomac in July and followed that by becoming the Editor/Publisher of “The Inside Pitch” Foundation newsletter. She took a job […]

Interview with Mayu Fielding

May 24th, 2017

Mayu Fielding is the Education Coordinator for the Pittsburgh Pirates.  As such, she manages an extraordinary program from Pirate City in Bradenton, FL. Born and raised in Venezuela Mayu graduated from Universidad Metropolitana (VE) in Caracas. She is a teacher first and foremost. Her passion is communication, culture and appreciation for all that we have in our […]

Of Updates and Sharp Objects

May 18th, 2017

Greetings, blog faithful. It’s Thursday (of course) and it’s May 18, in the year 2017. That makes it 16 and a half months since I sat down and started writing “Bats, Balls, & Burnouts” way back when we still lived in Liberty Lake, Wash. Seems like ancient history. And today, maybe today, possibly today, we might just get a real look at when the book will be available. I wish things could be more predictable with publishing people, but apparently I’m not the only author they are working with, so I take my updates from them when I get them.

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