Mark Armour
Mark Armour was elected as the President of SABR’s Board of Directors in 2019. He is the founder and longtime (2002-2016) director of SABR’s Baseball Biography Project. He was the recipient of SABR’s highest honor, the Bob Davids Award, in 2008 and the Henry Chadwick Award, honoring baseball’s greatest researchers, in 2014. His book Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball, published by the University of Nebraska Press, was a finalist for the prestigious Seymour Medal in 2011, as was In Pursuit of Pennants, also published by Nebraska, which he co-wrote with Dan Levitt in 2015. Mark has written or co-written several other books and many articles for publication. In 2016, he and Chris Dial resurrected SABR’s Baseball Cards Committee. For more information on all of this, visit his website.
SABR BioProject biographies written by Mark Armour
SABR Games Project stories written by Mark Armour
- September 16, 1975: Luis Tiant’s gem gives Red Sox hope for postseason
- August 19, 1972: Luis Tiant shuts out White Sox, 3-0
- May 28, 1971: Sonny Siebert outduels Vida Blue
- June 7, 1970: White Sox edge Yankees in 12 innings on Bat Day at Yankee Stadium
- June 22, 1969: Len Boehmer’s first hit wins it for Yanks
- June 14, 1969: Reggie Jackson’s 10 RBIs lead A’s rout at Fenway Park
- October 1, 1967: Tigers drop season finale to give Red Sox the AL pennant
SABR Journal Articles written by Mark Armour
- Satchel’s Wild Ride: How Satchel Paige Finally Made the Hall of Fame
- Henry Chadwick Award: Jane Leavy
- Henry Chadwick Award: Robert W. Peterson
- Henry Chadwick Award: Rob Neyer
- Henry Chadwick Award: Tom Shieber
- 1967 Red Sox: Was it really ‘Impossible’?
- The Rise and Fall of Artificial Turf
- Henry Chadwick Award: Lyle Spatz
- Henry Chadwick Award: Daniel R. Levitt
- 1975 Reds: Looking ahead to the season
- 1975 Reds: The postseason
- 1967 Winter Meetings: Expansion, Inevitably
- 1968 Winter Meetings: Down Goes Eckert
- 1969 Winter Meetings: Reorganization Talk
- 1970 Winter Meetings: Kuhn Thwarted
SABR Research Topics written by Mark Armour
SABR Research Articles written by Mark Armour
SABR Ballparks written by Mark Armour