Mark R. Donahue
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BASEBALL

"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."
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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.
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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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Chicago North Dodgers
​1990

Chicago North Cubs
​1994

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Chicago White Sox
1995

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Chicago Spirit
​2015


​Called by Jeff Lowery
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Dylan and Donahue go Back-to-Back


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  • Home
  • Mark Donahue
    • Author
    • Athlete >
      • Baseball
      • Basketball
    • Executive
    • Producer
  • Novels Sneak Peeks
    • Answer Man Prologue & Chapter 1
    • Fat Girl Prologue
    • Golden Reich Prologue
    • Last At Bat Chapter 1
    • STAT$ Chapter 1
  • Novels Press
    • On Air
    • Answer Man Press
    • Fat Girl Press
    • Golden Reich Press
    • Last at Bat Press
    • Stat$ Press
  • The Screenplays
  • The Sizzles
    • Answer Man
    • Fat Girl
    • Golden Reich
    • Last At Bat
    • STAT$
    • Call Me Jesse
    • EZWay
    • New York Dirt
    • Second Serve
    • The Farm
    • Unsolicited
    • War College