"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
"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
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.
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He is a life-long Reds fan and for eight years co-hosted the Monday night Ohio Baseball Weekly Show with Dave Mitchell.

Cincinnati Reds Dream Team 1986

Men's Senior Baseball League Tournament Teams

Chicago North Dodgers
​1990

Chicago White Sox
1995

Chicago Spirit
​2015

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

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