Winona State University Athletics

He lives and breathes baseball.  And for the nearly ten decades of his life, Maynard J. “Mo” Weber has been in love with the game of baseball.

Weber, like many G.I.’s whe were discharged at the end of WWII and ventured out to make good use of the GI Bill, came to Winona State Teachers College in 1946.  Right away Weber took to the Warrior diamond and became a manager/coach and remained at the position until her graduated in 1950.

During that time, when the Warriors were lucky to play 20 games in a season, Weber, who earned two letters in the baseball program, and the Warriors compiled a record of 39-20-1 and captured a conference championship in 1948.  Beside spending his spring seasons with the Warriors, Weber also spent his summers in Winona coaching and managing the Winona Southern Minnesota Baseball League.

Upon earning his undergraduate degree from Winona State, Weber taught in the elementary school system at Winona for a couple of years before heading out on a baseball coaching and teaching trail that covered the United States.

Weber eventually coached in Colorado, South Dakota and Missouri before takeing the head coach position at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA.  After a couple of seasons at William & Mary, Weber left to coach other teams in Virginia and Massachusetts. 

Now a retired stockbroker, Weber still loves to coach the aspects of hitting, which helped lead to induction into the Virginia Professional Baseball Hall of Fame and the Peninsula Pro Baseball Hall of Fame.

Outside of baseball Weber had found time to become a founding member of the Williamsburg Kiwanis Club, was named a Paul Harris Fellow and also served as a trustee at Winona State.

Weber, who was born in 1923 and is a native of Long Island, NY, continues to love his wife of 43 years, Dorothy.

Not too bad for a guy who has survived two heart surgeries and at one time made $7.50 an hour coaching and made his bed on a pool table while living and breathing basebal.