Wayne Stewart was born in Pittsburgh in 1951. He grew up in Donora, Pennsylvania, the same town that produced two Hall of Fame baseball players in Stan “The Man” Musial and Ken Griffey, Jr. In fact, Stewart was a classmate and baseball teammate of Ken Griffey, Sr. at Donora High School (Class of 1969). He received his B.S. in Education at California State College (Pa.) and began a 31-year (secondary education) teaching career in Lorain, Ohio, in 1974. He began his sports writing career in 1978 with a story for Baseball Digest. He continued writing for many national magazines, becoming an author of almost 40 books 12 years later. 

His first book was Baseball Oddities. He has also written biographies of Musial, Babe Ruth, Alex Rodriguez, and he co-wrote Hall of Famer Raymond Berry’s autobiography, All the Moves I Had. He has written many books on trivia such as The New Book of Baseball Trivia. One of his favorite books, along with his Stan the Man and America’s Football Factory (about star NFL players such as Joe Montana and Dan Marino out of western Pennsylvania}, is Wits, Flakes, and Clowns on baseball’s most colorful characters of all-time. Another nostalgic favorite: Remembering the Stars of the NFL Glory Years. Some of his interactive quiz-like books include You’re the Umpire, and Name That Ballplayer.

He is married and is the father of two sons and has one grandson. He retired from teaching in 2004 and resides in Amherst, Ohio, near Cleveland.