Word: balle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tigers tied it up, went ahead 4-2 in the second. In the third, with two men on base and no one out, Baltimore's Boog Powell smashed a line drive straight at Denny. It might have put the Orioles ahead. Instead, in pure self-defense, Denny caught the ball and turned a sure hit into the beginning of a triple play...
...mouth, the left corner of his upper lip curls back in a sneer, his hands come slowly together at his chest. Suddenly he wheels to the right, rears back and throws. If it is a strike, McLain licks his teeth with obvious satisfaction. Back comes the ball from the catcher and, as if bored with the very sight of the batter, McLain turns away from the plate...
When he was not playing the organ, Denny was playing ball. By the time he was eight, he was the star pitcher for a Little League team in Markham, blazing them past kids three and four years older. He still brags about his record. "Nobody could hit me. I was too fast." No one could catch him either. "I'd throw the ball to my brother Tim, and he used to fall down," says Denny! "He was only four feet five inches tall...
...McLain was put on waivers and claimed by Detroit for a piddling $8,000, an indignity that triggered the terrible McLain temper. He still gets mad when he thinks about it: "Isn't that a hell of a way to make a decision ?on the basis of one ball game?" Denny was still fuming when he was called up from a farm club to pitch for Detroit in September 1963. In Tiger Stadium on Sept. 21, he made his major-league debut?against the Chicago White Sox. A few days before the game, Detroit Manager Chuck Oressen took Denny...
...mound, he still had his problems off it. It was a regular occurrence for an angry McLain to bash his eyeglasses against the dugout wall (which is one reason why he now wears contacts). In Baltimore, when he was taken out of a game, he threw the ball at his manager and tossed his glove at the dugout. His control that day was so bad that the ball sailed over the dugout roof and into the stands...