Author: William W. Mowbray
Born: 1940
Bio: A former high school and college (Florida Southern) athlete, Bill Mowbray played on the 1965 conference baseball champion FSC squad under collegiate baseball hall of fame coach Hal Smeltzly, was a daily newspaper sports editor, news editor, weekly newspaper managing editor and college sports information director.
He is the author of two books, The Eastern Shore Baseball League, 1989 and Powerboat Racing on the Chesapeake, 1995, both published by Tidewater Publishers.
His sports articles have also appeared in Baseball Digest, Maryland Magazine, and Chesapeake Bay Magazine.
In 1948 he was introduced to the sport of powerboat racing when his mother took him to watch the Cambridge powerboat regatta. In 1956 he was flagman for the regatta and in 1966 was named as the eastern representative for the American Power Boat Association press advisory commission for which he served six years.
Mowbray also served on the Maryland State Athletic Hall of Fame for 5 years during which the first three boat racers were inducted.
He spent nine years in newspaper journalism and later created his own pre-press business.
Mowbray, semi-retired, still dabbles in computer generated camera ready work for commercial printers.
After time in North Carolina, Florida, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Salisbury and Centreville, MD, he returned to his hometown of Cambridge, MD where he still resides.