Mark Baumer, 1983-2017

Mark Baumer got one of my old best friends into punk and hardcore music, growing up in Maine. He went to Wheaton College, in Norton, Ma., on a baseball scholarship, and told me he knocked a hit off a Major Leaguer once. He wrote that he didn't know what to do when he finished college, and started writing. When we all lived in Boston, Mark moved there, …