Mark Armour

Mark Armour (born in 1960) is a baseball researcher whose most prominent achievement has been to start and coordinate SABR's ambitious Baseball Biography Project, starting in 2002.

He is also a writer, whose baseball titles include Paths to Glory: How Great Baseball Teams Got That Way co-written with Dan Levitt (2003) and Joe Cronin: A Life in Baseball (2010). He later undertook a big research project, trying to document the life of pitching great Satchel Paige on a day-by-day basis. He explained that as a baseball nerd, he was bothered by the lack of specific details available about the great pitcher's career, given his propensity for changing teams, barnstorming and pitching in exhibition games across the country. He scoured newspapers across the country for the whole of Paige's life span in order to build a full chronology, something he called "the Satchel Project". He presented his first findings at the annual SABR Convention in 2025.

Armour was honored with the Henry Chadwick Award in 2014. He became President of SABR in 2019, staying until 2025.

Further Reading

• Anthony Castrovince: "'The Satchel Project' maps Paige's every known outing", mlb.com, July 7, 2025. [1]
• Rob Neyer: "Mark Armour", The Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 43, Number 1 (spring 2014), pp. 118-119.

Related Sites

• Mark Armour at SABR's Chadwick Award page