A baseball author and former first baseman at the University of Missouri-Rolla, Al 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.

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

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

Al has been playing in senior baseball leagues for 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 1990 until 2009, he was a first baseman for the Cincinnati Colts in the Roy Hobbs League. Al attended Cincinnati Reds Fantasy Camps with former Major League Baseball players and won the “Pete Rose Highest Batting Average” award in 2002.

From 2010 until 2013, Spector was on the St. Louis Stallions in the Roy Hobbs League. In 2014, he joined the St. Louis Baseball Forever League with the St. Louis Patriots until 2019. He continues to play in that league with the St. Louis Chiefs.

Al has written 11 books and is working on a 12th book, most of which are about baseball. He has been asked to speak and write articles about his first book, “Baseball: Never Too Old to Play the Game”, released in 2007. The book is in the library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.