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

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.