mark-armour.net
Welcome to Mark Armour's web site
(click on an image above to find out more)
I am a freelance baseball writer living in Corvallis, Oregon. For the past 30 years I have been mainly a computer professional by day, but this site is devoted to the my sideline. I spent my childhood in Connecticut, my college years in New York and several years in Rhode Island and Massachusetts before moving to Oregon in 1993. I am now joined by Jane, Maya, and Drew in the idyllic/rainy Pacific Northwest.
NEWS
In 2015 the University of Nebraska Press published In Pursuit of Pennants--Baseball Operations from Deadball to Moneyball, a book I co-authored with Dan Levitt. To learn more, click on the book image above. The other images are for other books I published in the past, and a more extensive list of articles I have published.
Dan and I have created a BLOG to talk about the book and topics related to the material therein.
Notable milestones:
- Founder and director of the Baseball Biography Project, which aims to research, write, edit, and publish a biographical article on tens of thousands of baseball players and personages. See our web site.
- Past president of Northwest Chapter of SABR (2003-2004).
- Received (with Dan Levitt) the 2004 Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award for the book Paths to Glory.
- Received 2010 McFarland-SABR Baseball Research Award for "A Tale of Two Umpires," published in Baseball Research Journal 38.
- Finalist for the 2011 Seymour Medal for Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball.
- Received the 2008 Bob Davids Award, given to SABR for meritorious service and research.
- In 2014 received the Henry Chadwick Award for contributions to baseball research.
