Board of Directors
Mark Armour
President
Mark was elected as SABR President in 2019 after joining the Board as a Director in 2018. He has been a SABR member since 1983 and was the founder and longtime director (2002-16) of SABR’s Baseball Biography Project. He was the recipient of the Bob Davids Award in 2008 and the Henry Chadwick Award in 2014. His book, Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball, was a finalist for the Seymour Medal in 2011, as was In Pursuit of Pennants, which he co-wrote with Dan Levitt in 2015. He has written or co-written several other books and many articles for publication. He is also co-founder and co-chair of SABR’s Baseball Cards Committee, past president of the Northwest Chapter, and editor of SABR’s 2006 Seattle convention journal. He holds a bachelor’s degree in math/computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s in computer science from Northeastern University. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon, with his wife and children.
Allison Levin
Vice President
Allison was elected as Vice President in 2024 and has served on the SABR Board since 2019. She has been a SABR member since 2013 and is an active member of the Women in Baseball and Educational Resources Committees, as well as the Bob Broeg St. Louis Chapter, where she organizes a local research conference every year. She presents her research regularly at local and national SABR events and other sports and academic conferences. She is an adjunct professor of Sports Communications and Sports Management at Webster University, where she sponsors the school’s Sports Media and Analytics Club and mentors students in baseball-related work. She holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and political science from Grinnell College, a master’s degree in applied communications from Southern Illinois University, and a JD degree from Washington University in St. Louis. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
Todd Lebowitz
Secretary
Todd was elected as SABR’s Secretary in 2011. He has been an attorney with Baker & Hostetler LLP in Cleveland, Ohio, since 1997. He has offered pro bono legal counsel to SABR since 2005, advising on numerous matters relating to intellectual property, contracts, personnel, business strategy and implementation. He has performed legal work for the Cleveland Indians, including drafting player contracts and negotiating terms with player agents, some work for Major League Baseball related to trademark enforcement, and conducted a study entitled “The Effect of Financial Rewards on Intrinsic Motivation: A Study of Long-Term Contracts in Major League Baseball”. He has been a member of SABR since 2000, is part of the Baseball Records, Business of Baseball and Latino Baseball committees, and has assisted other members with legal and historical research, including understanding legal terminology and decisions. He holds a BA in psychology and a law degree, both from the University of Michigan. He lives in Solon, Ohio.
Daniel R. Levitt
Treasurer
Dan was elected to the SABR Board in 2020 and appointed Treasurer in 2021. He is an award-winning author of four baseball books, past president of SABR’s Halsey Hall Chapter in Minnesota, and the recipient of the Henry Chadwick Award (2017) and Bob Davids Award (2015). His book, The Battle That Forged Modern Baseball: The Federal League Challenge and Its Legacy, won the Larry Ritter Award in 2013 and Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way (with Mark Armour) won the Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award in 2004. He is a Senior Vice President for Ryan Companies US, Inc., where he manages the capital markets for Ryan-owned properties. He studied at the University of Wisconsin-Madison but migrated home to Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Tyrone Brooks
Director
Tyrone was appointed to the SABR Board of Directors in 2024. He previously served on the Board from 2019 to 2021. He is the Senior Director of MLB’s Front Office & Field Staff Diversity Pipeline Program, which was established to identify, develop and grow the pool of qualified minority and female candidates for on-field and baseball operations positions throughout the industry. Prior to joining MLB in 2015, Tyrone worked in the Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians, and Atlanta Braves front offices. He is also the founder of the Baseball Industry Network, which covers the full gamut of people working in industry of baseball.
Dan Evans
Director
Dan was appointed to the SABR Board in 2021. He is a baseball executive who has had decision-making roles with five Major League Baseball franchises over the past four decades, including a stint as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 2001 to 2004 and, most recently, a scout and Director of Pacific Rim Operations for the Toronto Blue Jays. He is the President of Baseball Operations for Athelyix Inc., mentors Sports Management Worldwide’s Baseball GM & Scouting online course, a Baseball-Reference Brand Ambassador, former Chief Operating Officer of The Field of Dreams Movie Site, and past president of the SABR Rocky Mountain Chapter. He is a native of Chicago and a graduate of DePaul University. He lives in Ankeny, Iowa.
Tara Krieger
Director
Tara was elected to the SABR Board in 2021. She has been a SABR member since 2005 and a contributing author to the BioProject and other publications. She has also served as a New Member Ambassador and on the SABR Research Award Committee, and is a frequent attendees at the national convention and Casey Stengel Chapter events in New York City. She is an attorney for the City of New York and a vice-chair of the Board of Directors for Baseball Across America. She holds a B.A. in English and Film from Barnard College and a J.D. from the New York Law School.
Roberta J. Newman
Director
Roberta was elected to the SABR Board in 2024. She has been a SABR member since 2000 and is a past recipient of the SABR Baseball Research Award (2020) and the Negro Leagues Committee’s Robert Peterson Award (2014). She has contributed to several SABR Digital Library books and she serves on the Editorial Board for NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture. She is a Professor of Liberal Studies at New York University. She holds a B.A. in English from NYU, a BFA in Illustration from the Parsons School of Design, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D in Comparative Literature from NYU.
Bill Nowlin
Director
Bill was elected as SABR’s Vice President in 2004 and re-elected for five more terms before stepping down in 2016, when he was elected as a Director. He has specialized in Red Sox research since he turned to writing and research in the late 1990s and has written, edited, or co-edited more than 75 books and more than 750 articles, many of which are Red Sox-related. He is one of three founders of Rounder Records, one of America’s most successful independent record labels. A member of the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, he has also traveled widely, visiting more than 125 countries to date, and has occasionally taught courses at Boston-area universities on “Baseball and Politics” and Sportswriting. He was the 2011 winner of the Bob Davids Award, SABR’s highest honor. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Kat Williams
Director
Kat was elected to the SABR Board in 2023. She is the founder and CEO of the International Women’s Baseball Center in Rockford, Illinois. She helps to organize the annual SABR/IWBC Women in Baseball Conference and is active in the Women in Baseball Committee. She is the author of two books on women’s baseball and has published many articles on baseball history in academic and research journals while teaching history at Marshall University in West Virginia. She holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in history from the University of Louisville and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Kentucky.
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