Spector has been playing baseball throughout his life. He began as a youth in the St. Louis Khoury League and continues to play in the St. Louis Baseball Forever League. He is a first baseman.

In 1963 and 1964, he played for University City High School, helping his team win the Missouri state championship in 1963.

Spector was a four-year starter at the University of Missouri at Rolla from 1964 to 1968. He was team captain his senior year and was scouted by the Chicago Cubs.

Spector has been playing in senior baseball leagues for close to 30 years, participating in many tournaments across the United States and in foreign countries.

When he lived in Cincinnati, he played for Proctor & Gamble in the Men's Senior Baseball League. From 1999 to 2009, he was a first baseman for the Cincinnati Colts in the Roy Hobbs League. He attended Cincinnati Reds Fantasy Camps with former Major Leaguers and won the "Pete Rose Highest Batting Average" award in 2002.

From 2010 to 2013, Spector was on the St. Louis Stallions in the Roy Hobbs League. He joined the St. Louis Baseball Forever League in 2014, playing for the St. Louis Patriots until 2019.

Spector continues to play in the St. Louis Baseball Forever League with the St. Louis Chiefs.

He has written eleven books and is working on a twelfth book. Several of his books are about baseball. Spector has been asked to speak and write articles about his first book "Baseball: Never Too Old to Play the Game" which was released in 2007, The book is in the library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.