Rob Nelson

Rob Nelson

Rob Nelson (born c. 1949) is a game designer and former Portland Mavericks minor league pitcher who created Big League Chew bubblegum along with his business partner former pitcher Jim Bouton who sold the idea to a division of the Wrigley company in 1979. Rob Nelson, former baseball player and founder of the iconic Big League Chew baseball-themed bubble gum, blows a bubble in the stands of Providence Park in Portland, Ore., where he came up with the idea. Learn more at http://www.sbnation.com/2013/3/25/4145160/big-league-chew-and-revisionist-history.