Born in the small town of Clinton, Iowa, Bobby Dews moved to rural Edison, Georgia, to live with his grandparents at an early age and graduated from Edison High School (now Calhoun County High School).

Dews played baseball and basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets before being signed by the St. Louis Cardinals.

[1] Dews played and managed in the Cardinals' farm system before joining the Atlanta Braves organization in 1974.

He managed at multiple minor league levels, while serving as field coordinator of instruction in its farm system.

While a writer-in-residence at Andrew, Dews completed and published a second collection of stories entitled An Illusion of Victory, which were released by CreateSpace in 2009.