Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen

by Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz

2024 CASEY Award Finalist

Mike Donlin was a brash, colorful, and complicated personality. He was the most popular athlete in New York and was a star on the powerful New York Giants teams of 1905 and 1908. Though haunted by tragedy, including the deaths of both of his parents as a boy, Donlin was a charming, engaging, and kind-hearted man who also had successful careers on the stage and in film.

One of the early "bad boys" among professional...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496238966
• ISBN13: 9781496238962
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.0"