Mark Marquess

Who is Mark Marquess?

Mark Marquess is an American college baseball coach. He has served as the head coach of the Stanford Cardinal baseball team since the start of the 1977 season.

In his 34 years at Stanford, he has compiled a record of 1,387–619–7. His teams have made the postseason 23 times, and have had a record of 109–50 there. In the NCAA Regionals, his teams have a 65–25 record. In the NCAA Super Regionals, his teams have a 10–2 appearance. In the College World Series, he has compiled a 34–23 record, winning back-to-back national titles in 1987 and 1988. On April 3, 2011, Marquess won his 1,400th game. He is a member of the Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame.

He attended Stanford from 1965 to 1969, where he played baseball and football, he was also a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity. His freshman year roommate at Stanford was Mitt Romney, who went on to become Governor of Massachusetts and the Republican nominee for President in 2012.

He spent four years in minor league baseball with the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds organizations, the last year as a player-coach for the Iowa Oaks, the White Sox' top affiliate.