{"title":"Steve Steinberg","description":"Steve Steinberg is a baseball historian and author of Urban Shocker: Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age (Nebraska, 2017), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, and The World Series in the Deadball Era. Lyle Spatz is the author of many baseball books and the coauthor (with Steve Steinberg) of The Colonel and Hug: The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees (Nebraska, 2015), winner of the SABR Baseball Research Award, and 1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for Baseball Supremacy in New York (Nebraska, 2010), winner of the Seymour Medal.","products":[{"product_id":"mike-donlin-a-rough-and-rowdy-life-from-new-york-baseball-idol-to-stage-and-screen-hardcover","title":"Mike Donlin: A Rough and Rowdy Life from New York Baseball Idol to Stage and Screen - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award \u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2025 Larry Ritter Book Award \u003cbr\u003e ​Finalist for the 2024 CASEY Award \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mike Donlin was a brash, colorful, and complicated personality. He was the most popular athlete in New York and was a star on the powerful New York Giants teams of 1905 and 1908. Though haunted by tragedy, including the deaths of both of his parents as a boy, Donlin was a charming, engaging, and kind-hearted man who also had successful careers on the stage and in film. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One of the early \"bad boys\" among professional athletes, Donlin's temper and combativeness--compounded by alcoholism--led to battles with umpires and fans, numerous suspensions from the game, and even jail time. In 1906, when Donlin married vaudeville actress Mabel Hite, his life changed for the better, and their love story captivated the nation. Donlin left baseball after his sensational comeback for the dramatic 1908 season and joined Mabel on the stage, likely losing a Hall of Fame career. Then in 1912, at the age of twenty-nine, Mabel died of intestinal cancer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e After making a final comeback as a player in 1914, Donlin starred in baseball's first feature film. He became a drinking buddy of actors John Barrymore and Buster Keaton and married actress Rita Ross. The couple moved to Hollywood, where Donlin became a beloved figure and appeared in roughly one hundred movies, mostly in minor roles. Despite his Hollywood career, Donlin stayed connected to the game he loved and was seeking a coaching job with the Giants when he died of a heart attack in 1933. At the dawn of the celebrity era of sports, Donlin was one of the nation's first athletes to capture the public's attention. This biography by Steve Steinberg and Lyle Spatz shows why.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51434222747871,"sku":"9781496238962","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Ku4Sjp79sZ9781496238962.webp?v=1790024876"},{"product_id":"comeback-pitchers-the-remarkable-careers-of-howard-ehmke-and-jack-quinn-hardcover","title":"Comeback Pitchers: The Remarkable Careers of Howard Ehmke and Jack Quinn - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e2022 SABR Baseball Research Award \u003cbr\u003e Finalist for the 2022 SABR Seymour Medal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The careers of pitchers Jack Quinn and Howard Ehmke began in the Deadball Era and peaked in the 1920s. 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He overcame his physical problems by developing new pitches and pitching motions and capped his career with a stunning performance in Game One of the 1929 World Series against the Chicago Cubs, which still ranks among baseball's most memorable games. 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