MARK NEWMAN is a recipient of the National Magazine Award for General Excellence and author of No. 1 bestseller Diamonds from the Dugout. He has been a pro sports beat writer for The Miami Herald, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and San Jose Mercury News; VP/GM at The Sporting News, and from 2002-2018 was a familiar byline to millions of baseball fans as Enterprise Editor and lead national writer for MLB.com.

The Indiana University graduate is a longtime Hall of Fame voting member of the Baseball Writers' Association of America working 25 World Series. Yankee Legends was his follow-up book in 2018. It is a unique Hall-centric dive into the history of the world’s most successful sports franchise, focusing on pivotal moments and pegged to upcoming back-to-back inductions extraordinaire for Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter.

At MLB.com, Newman was a key player in MLB Advanced Media’s historic rise as a tech leader that paved the way for a $1 billion Disney acquisition. Newman started and oversaw MLB’s longtime blogging community (MLBlogs) and put MLB on Twitter by posting the first 26,000 tweets and growing the first 1.2 million followers @MLB.

Newman and his wife Lisa live in St. Petersburg, Florida, combining for four children (Matt, Ben, Josh, and Rachel) and an English Bulldog named Bingley. See more on his The Authors Guild member profile page.

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