Description: A biography of early twentieth-century baseball player and actor Mike Donlin, one of the best hitters and most colorful players in the history of the game. Haunted by tragedy, he was a showman and an alcoholic, married one of the nation's most famous vaudeville actresses--who turned his life around, and acted on the stage and in approximately one hundred films.
Review Quotes: "Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz have always dug deeper than most baseball biographers into the inner characters of their subjects. In Mike Donlin their digging has struck rich gold. Their crisp narrative takes Donlin from his tragic youth through his wild baseball career to his redemption by the wife who took him away from baseball and led him to a second life as an actor."--Gabriel Schechter, author of Victory Faust: The Rube Who Saved McGraw's Giants