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"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."
--Jim Bouton |
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"I started off as a very very bad baseball player at about seven years old. I could barely throw, I could barely run. I could not make the worst team in the league, but I thought I was great.
We were playing in a little league park during the middle of the day, and I actually hit a home run, and it dawned on me I had gotten better. I became mesmerized by it, maybe because I wasn’t any good at it at first." --Mark Donahue |
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Mark continued to play and improve into adulthood, ultimately receiving an offer to try-out for the Philadelphia Phillies farm team in the mid-1970s.
He went on to pitch at Reds Dream Week 1986; as #44 played FB in seven Men's Senior Baseball League Championship Tournaments 1990--2015, (five of which took the Win and "The Ring"), he was also named tournament MVP three times. A turbulent return flight from the 2006 Arizona MSBL tournament provided the inspiration for his first novel and screenplay, Last at Bat. He is a life-long Reds fan and for eight years co-hosted the Monday night Ohio Baseball Weekly show on ultimatesports.com. |
Cincinnati Reds Dream Team 1986
Men's Senior Baseball League Tournament Teams
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Dylan and Donahue go Back-to-Back
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