Breaking baseball’s rules has kept several unarguably great ballplayers out of the Hall of Fame: Pete Rose, Barry Bonds,and Roger Clemens immediately come to mind during the HoF voting season. But is all cheating the same? Not according to Intentional Balk: Baseball’s Thin Line Between Innovation and Cheating
, the new collaboration by Daniel J. Levitt and this Conversation’s guest, Mark Armour.
Armour is a busy guy. The current president of the Society for American Baseball Research, he has his finger in a lot of baseball pies, as it were. He has been a SABR member since 1983 and was the founder and director of the organization’s Baseball Biography Project for more than a dozen years. 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. Here’s our previous Conversation which came out after the publication Pennants.
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