Bob Mayer Biography
BOB MAYER
Bob Mayer is a retired Bank Executive having spent 30+ years with JPMorganChase, and Bankers Trust Co. Bob is a collector of vintage baseball items, and artifacts from his collection were on display at the Glory Days exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York, the Yorktown NY Museum and the Orangetown NY and Peekskill History Museums.
A member of Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) and the Baseball Hall of Fame, Bob has been investigating early baseball in Westchester, Orange, Dutchess, Ulster and Putnam Counties in New York for the past several years. Particular focus has been the teams and players on the Wallkill B.B.C. and New York State Homeopathic Asylum teams that played in Middletown NY between 1866 and 1908, and Black Barnstorming teams that came through lower New York prior to 1900.
He has spoken at the 2011 & 2014 19th Century Conferences at Baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, the Negro League Conference at the Virginia Sports Museum, the Sports Museum of Dutchess County, the NYC SABR Conference, and dozens of Libraries and Historical Societies. He also provides presentations on collecting baseball memorabilia for youth groups, and Little League organizations. He has appeared as a guest on several cable TV and local radio stations, and was the producer of the Old Timers Baseball Celebration in Peekskill in July 2012, and the Fleischmann’s 150th Anniversary Celebration in 2019.
Bob has had several baseball related articles published in Baseball – A Journal of the Early Game, the Orange County Historical Society Journal, the SABR 19th Century Newsletter, The National Pastime, Mahopac News, Catskill Tri-County Historical Views (Fall 2019) and The Glove Collector’s Newsletter, and The Westchester Historian. He is currently researching the Colored Cavalry baseball teams of West Point, the Mohonk Mountain baseball teams (1913-16), and strangely, the history of African American Golf in Westchester County.
Mr. Mayer serves on the Board of Directors of the Middletown Historical Society and is a past President and Treasurer of the Peekskill Museum.