Roger Le Roy Mason (born September 18, 1958 in Bellaire, Michigan) is an American former professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues primarily in relief from 1984-1987, 1989, and 1991-1994. He lives in his home town of Bellaire, Michigan and is married to his high school sweetheart. Roger will be remembered in the Major Leagues as one who excelled in the post season were his microscopic ERA of 0.49 over 18 1/3 innings is still among the best for relievers. He had arm problems after the 1994 season and was not able to come back from surgery. He owned a pizza parlor named "Big League Pizza" that had an award winning deep dish pizza pie. He is a religious man who has taken this season of his life to start the Northern Michigan House of Prayer and leads a Bible study at the retirement village were he was born. Roger has two Children, Jeff Mason (graduate of Liberty University) and Amy Mason (Currently attending Liberty University).
Professor Roger Mason (born 1940) was the discoverer of Ediacaran fossils. He is now a professor at the China University of Geosciences at Wuhan.
In April 1957, while rock climbing with friends in Charnwood Forest, England, he spotted what looked like a leaf embedded in the rock. He asked Trevor D. Ford of the University of Leicester to examine it. Ford identified it as a Precambrian fossil and named it Charnia masoni after the forest and Mason.
