Robert Hilliard
Robert Hilliard (Col ’74 CM)
Robert A. Hilliard (Col ’74 CM) has published two novels, What Are The Odds? The Calculus of Coincidence and All In?…Beware the Cross Currents, as part of the Cutter/Wellington trilogy. The story centers around two rival families steeped in the rich tradition of thoroughbred racing—the Cutters of Leesburg, Virginia, and the Wellingtons of Lexington, Kentucky. Fellow UVA alums will gravitate toward TJ Cutter III, a 1974 graduate of Mr. Jefferson’s academical village. The third book in the series, Life’s Elusive Horizon, is slated for release in the first quarter of 2022. Mr. Hilliard’s first book was a memoir about bringing professional baseball back to NJ in the 1990s.
Robert Hilliard (Col ’74 CM)
Rob Hilliard (Col ’74 CM) has published What Are The Odds? The Calculus of Coincidence and All In?… Beware the Cross Currents. The works of fiction, set in 1983, revolve around two prominent families, the Wellingtons of Lexington, Kentucky, and the Cutters of Leesburg, Virginia, and their thoroughbred breeding and racing enterprises. In connection with their introduction, Mr. Hilliard has also launched a blog, ThoroughbredRailbirds.Horse. A third novel in the Wellington/Cutter trilogy, Life’s Elusive Horizon, is planned for the winter of 2021-22. His first effort with Outskirts Press, The Circus Is In Town: A Baseball Odyssey, chronicled his real-life Field of Dreams story in which he was the central figure in bringing professional baseball back to New Jersey in the mid-’90s. A limited number of copies have been made available in the alumni author section of the UVA Bookstore.
Robert Hilliard (Col ’74 CM)
Robert Hilliard (Col ’74 CM) released The Circus Is in Town: A Baseball Odyssey (Outskirts Press) in November 2015. The book provides a detailed account of Mr. Hilliard’s role in bringing professional baseball to New Jersey as president of a St. Louis Cardinals Minor League affiliate and developer of Skylands Stadium, in addition to a personal history of the events that led him to table his business career to pursue his love of the sport.