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The downfall of former pitcher Denny McLain: ex-big leaguer's career tumbled into trouble and tragedy after he won 31 games for Tigers in 1968 and captured A.L. Cy Young and MVP honors. (Fallen Star).(Statistical Data Included)
ALMOST THREE DECADES SINCE his days as a big league pitcher ended, Denny McLain still spends his time with a group of guys. He still puts on a uniform every day. He's still in the news.
But the guys are all convicts. The uniform is a dark green prison shirt and pants. And the news is unwanted. That's because the last major league hurler to win 30 games in a season is in the middle of an eight-year prison term for embezzling millions of dollars from a Michigan meatpacking plant.
The player who once had the world eating out of his hand now sits in the sterile visitors room of the McKean County (Pennsylvania) Federal Correctional Institution, wolfing down a ...
- McLain's Right Arm Helps Pay Legal Bills;His Autograph Costs $5 at Card Show
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post David Aldridge December 21, 1987 700+ words
Denny McLain signed bats. He signed...album called "Denny McLain at the Organ-The Detroit Tigers' Superstar Swings...young man said after McLain signed an 8 x 10 picture...circa 1968, in his Detroit Tigers uniform. "Good luck...
- ONCE A HERO, NOW MCLAIN TRIES SURVIVAL.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 20, 1987 700+ words
...year later, Denny McLain would win 31 games for the Detroit Tigers and sketch a portrait...egregious of Denny McLain's errors. Only...went 31-6 for the Detroit Tigers in '68, he was...Kuhn, who cited McLain's alleged participation...
- McLain is in trouble again, and figures he'll get by, again.(Originated from...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Pluto, Terry May 14, 1996 700+ words
...late 1960s. In 1968, Denny McLain was only 24 years old. He...one games, that was what McLain won back in 1968. His Detroit Tigers were the world champions...fouled it off. No problem. McLain said he'd do it again. This...
- McLain chronicles troubled life.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) May 14, 2007 700+ words
...Mitchell AUBURN HILLS, Mich. _ Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain was the toast of Detroit in...slider. On Sept. 13, 1968, McLain was on the cover of Time Magazine...Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspended McLain for his involvement in bookmaking...
- Sing it: McLain's life still balladlike: He'll speak at baseball Hall of Fame...
- Newspaper article from: News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN) May 19, 2006 700+ words
...Maria Burns May 19--Denny McLain has held a lot of jobs in the last 40 years. Pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Promotions director with...inspired "The Ballad of Denny McLain." So, maybe it's not surprising...country music song. At 62, McLain knows what it's like to be...
- Pen is not a pal in McLain's mind
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times JOEL BIERIG April 22, 1988 700+ words
...the balk rule. When Denny McLain says he fears going back to...penitentiary. Last September, McLain made almost as many headlines...games for the world champion Detroit Tigers. He was released from prison...the judge and prosecutor. McLain walked out of the Federal Correctional...
- Out of prison - and family first // McLain free, if not fancy
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Joel Bierig January 3, 1988 700+ words
...up the telephone too long. McLain's inventory of Komets promotions...to his fortune, Dennis Dale McLain of south suburban Markham...remembered as the dominating Detroit Tigers pitcher who won back-to...years in prison. Perhaps, as McLain says, "Most people aren...
- MCLAIN READY TO BEGIN 'WHOLE NEW BALLGAME'.(Sports)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) September 15, 1987 700+ words
...whole new ball game for me," McLain said in a telephone interview...I'm very excited," said McLain, who won 31 games and the Cy Young award for the 1968 Detroit Tigers. He went 24-9 in 1969 and...on with life," he said. McLain was convicted in 1985 and sentenced...
Source: HighBeam Research, The downfall of former pitcher Denny McLain: ex-big leaguer's career...