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Right Off the Bat
(1915) American
B&W : Five reels
Directed by Hugh Reticker

Cast: Roy Hauck [young Mike Donlin], Henry Grady [Mr. Donlin, his father], Fan Bourke (Fannie Bourke) [Mrs. Donlin, Mike’s mother], Doris Farrington [young Viola Bradley], George Henry [Hiram Bradley], Mabel Wright [Mrs. Bradley, his wife], Harry Six [Archie], Peter Conroy [town marshall], Mike Donlin [himself], John J. McGraw (John McGraw) [himself], Claire Mersereau [Viola Bradley], Rita Ross Donlin [Lucy, Viola’s friend], Charles Mather [Tom], Thornton Friel [Elans], George Sullivan [Jake Dunning], Frank Frayne [boy]

Arrow Film Corporation production; distributed by All Feature Booking Agency. / Scenario by Albert S. LeVino. Assistant director, Charles Mather. Cinematography by Henry Bredeson and C.W. Van Ranst. / Released September 1915. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Rita Ross Donlin was Mike Donlin’s wife at the time of the film’s production.

Drama: Biography.

Synopsis: Biography of baseball great Mike Donlin.
Synopsis available in AFI-F1 n. F1.3724.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Athletes: Baseball players - Crime: Bribery (Attempted), Kidnapping - Gamblers - Machinists - Sports: Baseball: Baseball scouts, Baseball teams (New York Giants) - USA: Connecticut: Winsted

Listing updated: 28 October 2005.

References: AFI-F1 n. F1.3724; Edelman-Baseball pp. 28, 127, 203 : Website-IMDb.