Bobby played four seasons of professional baseball with the Chicago Cubs Organization as a shortstop and third baseman. Some of the well-known players he played with and against include Roger Metzger, Vida Blue, and Rich Reuschel of the San Francisco Giants; Billy North of the Oakland Athletics; Oscar Gamble and Mickey Rivers of the New York Yankees; Craig Swain of the New York Mets; Don Stanhouse of the Baltimore Orioles; Larry Guru of the Kansas City Royals and Bill Buckner of the Boston Red Sox.



Bobby is a 1972 graduate of Arizona State University, which has one of the finest collegiate baseball programs in the country. He also has a Master's Degree in Health and Physical Education from Rowan University. In 1973 Bobby coached the Margate Senior League to win the New Jersey State title.



He is the former head baseball coach at Atlantic Community College, which won the Garden State Athletic Conference and Region XIX Championship in his first year there. He was also selected Region XIX Coach of the Year, which includes all of New Jersey, Delaware and eastern Pennsylvania, and Garden State Conference Coach of the Year for the 1976 season. His 1978 team finished as the 11th-ranked junior college in the United States. He was also selected WOND radio station's Coach of the Year that year.