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Books by Mark Arnold
The Battle in Seattle
The Seattle Mariners Advance to the ALCS With a 15 Inning Classic
In the spring of 2025 the Seattle Mariners were looking to sign their Platinum Award winning catcher, Cal Raleigh, to a new, 6-year $105 million deal. Before signing, Cal wanted assurances that the team was on board with the goal of getting to and winning a World Series; that if the players were putting it on the line, the front office would too, and would do what it takes to make that happen. Apparently, as he did sign the contract, the Big Dumper was satisfied that was the case, and the Mariners launched into the 2025 season; one that, before it was over, would take Mariners fans on a ride we’ll never forget, culminating in the playoffs and making the American League Championship Series, 8 outs away from the Fall Classic. Along the way, in the American League Divisional Series against the Detroit Tigers, the Mariners played one of the most remarkable, and the longest, series clinching playoff games in Major League history—a Game 5, 15-inning classic. Dubbed by long time Mariners broadcaster, Rick Rizzs, as “The Battle in Seattle,” this book is the story of that game.
Tall Christmas Tales: The Arnold Clan
An anthology of stories celebrating the true spirit and meaning of Christmas
The Arnold Clan-Tall Christmas Tales is an anthology of stories celebrating the true spirit and meaning of Christmas. Drawn, as the author states, “from a lifetime of Christmases”, most of the stories are anecdotal in nature and reflect the wonder, joy and magic of Christmas, whether from a child’s perspective, or from an adult’s. Also included are two short Christmas stories of pure fiction, “The Christmas Tree” and “The Ornament Maker,” along with the author’s tribute to what he considers the greatest Christmas story of all time, “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens. If you are a Christmas traditionalist and love the holiday and its spirit, you will love The Arnold Clan-Tall Christmas Tales.
Good Vibes Only
"Good Vibes Only": The Seattle Mariners 2022 "Ending the Playoff Drought" Season
“Good Vibes Only” is nothing less than a game by game, inning by inning, and play by play account of the Seattle Mariners remarkable 2022 “end the playoff drought” season. Starting with the first game of the season against the Twins, the book advances the reader through the entire campaign and post-season, game by game, culminating in the unbelievable 18-inning, 1-0 Divisional Round loss to the Houston Astros that eliminated our team from the playoffs. Each of the individual game accounts in the book were written live, immediately following each game, usually on the same day. Written from a fan’s perspective, they are unvarnished, and reflect the frustrations, the joys and the ups and downs of the long 162-game season; the incredible excitement and relief of Cal Raleigh’s playoff clinching homer; the exhilarating high in defeating the Blue Jays in the Wild Card Round; the devastating low of losing to the Astros in the Divisional Round.
"Why Not Us?"
A Chronology of the Seattle Seahawks' First Super Bowl Championship Season
In the 2013/14 NFL Season the Seattle Seahawks won their first ever Super Bowl Championship and for at least this brief breath in history are the best football team in the world! Here is the story of how they got there.
Ichiro and Gorgeous George: Hall of Fame Edition
A Fan's Look at Baseball, Life and Ichiro Suzuki's Magnificent Run at George Sisler's Single Season Hit Record
The 2004 baseball season was, for the Seattle Mariners, a disaster. But by mid August of the season, most Mariner fans were being distracted from the team’s won-lost record. The reason? They were busy watching Ichiro Suzuki chase down one of the longest standing major records in baseball: George Sisler’s all time record for hits in a single season.
More than a story about the game of baseball and a great player’s accomplishment, Ichiro and Gorgeous George is about the game of life, the spiritual connections that bind us all and the lessons to be learned between the lines. As such it is a must read, not only for students and fans of baseball, but for the students and fans of life itself.
Saying Goodbye to Hammerin' Hank Aaron
A Heartfelt Tribute from a Lifelong Fan
In the 1950s and 60s, baseball was truly the national pastime and the New York Yankees ruled the world. Except, that is, for that 1957 World Series when the Bronx Bombers fell to the Milwaukee Braves 4 games to 3.
The Yankees lost that Series largely due to the play of a slender, 23-year-old Black man who played right field and hit the cover off the ball: Henry “Hank” Aaron.
As the seasons came and went, I followed his exploits closely. This is my tribute to one of the greatest ball players of all time: Hammerin’ Hank!
Goin' Back to "The Gap"
Tales of the Grand Canyon and a Hippie Youth
In May of 1972, during the waning years of the hippy/counter-culture era, two good friends and I embarked on an extended hitchhiking trip from Seattle to the American southwest and the Grand Canyon. At the time I was a 21-year-old college dropout and was primed for some adventure.
In 2017, my wife Tammy and I made another trip to the southwestern desert and the Canyon. In part so Tammy could see and experience the Canyon for herself for the first time; and in part so I could visit again and enjoy an area that is almost spiritual to me.
This little book is the story of these two trips, taken almost exactly 45 years apart. The first, an expression of freedom and rebellion born out of the hippy counter-culture of the times. And the second, a simple vacation that turned into so much more…
The Christmas Tree
A Short Christmas Story of Football, Hope, and Belief in One's Dreams
The Christmas Tree: A Short Christmas Story of Football, Hope, and Belief in One’s Dreams is the heartwarming and inspiring tale of a young, poor boy who loves football. And how on one cold Christmas Eve his life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a kind old man who teaches him the power of his own dreams.
A unique, holiday story with a spiritual twist, to be enjoyed again and again.
