[citation needed] During his senior year at Bay High School,[2][3] he was named the first winner of the Ed Bang Scholarship, created to honor the "Dean of American Sports Writers.
"[citation needed] Nemec played outfield and first base for Ohio State University while earning his BA in English.
[4] After serving in the army, Nemec taught and coached in Cleveland public schools while working on a novel about the Sam Sheppard murder case, which occurred in his hometown of Bay Village.
He has taught writing at College of Marin, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, and prisons in the San Francisco Bay area.
[1][4] Nemec previously played baseball with the Oaks, a senior league team in San Francisco.