Word: mclain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ellen McLain's Patience the native, young loveless girl who finds true love and happiness etc., etc., is properly native and young. She steals the show more than once with her singing, her stage presence and her low musical pun in the first act Nancy Urqhart Traverse as Jane, the lovelorn lass who is by her own admission, "massive," gives a superior performance, especially in her elephantine pas de deux in the second act with Bunthorne...
...game's outstanding pitchers. But like Lou Gehrig, who labored first in the shadow of Babe Ruth and then Joe DiMaggio, Lolich has usually seemed to be second best. He had the initial misfortune of being teamed with the Peck's Bad Boy of baseball, Denny McLain. The outstanding performance of Lolich's career-three World Series victories over the St. Louis Cardinals in 1968 -was virtually lost in the glare of McLain's 31 victories that season. In 1971, Lolich won 25 games and struck out 308 batters, tops in either league. He also pitched...
...which has understandably nettled Lolich. On the eve of McLain's 30th victory in 1968, Mickey posted a sign in the Tiger clubhouse: ATTENTION WRITERS: THIS WAY TO MCLAIN'S LOCKER. As for the Cy Young Award, Lolich has gone so far as to devise a complex scoring system of his own based on the number of starts, victories, strikeouts, etc. As he points out: "The award, then, wouldn't be based on whim. Of course, the baseball writers aren't about to give up their right to be supreme judges...
...miles to work from his home in the Detroit suburb of Washington. Last year, when for the first time in his career he won his 20th game, Lolich sprung for six bottles of champagne for his teammates. This season, the honors that have long eluded him are in view. McLain is in the minors, and Blue, after a lengthy holdout, has yet to win a game. Meanwhile, Lolich is bewildering American League batsmen with a repertory of pitches that now includes a "cut fastball," a slider and a hard sinker. His victory over the California Angels last week made...
...funny way of spending his money. Short's first gate-building move and a good one-was to sign Ted Williams as the Senators' manager. But last fall, overriding Williams' objections, Short traded half of the team's infield and $80,000 to get Denny McLain, Detroit's bad-boy pitcher. McLain reciprocated by becoming this season's first 20-game loser. As the Senators disintegrated from a mediocre but interesting ball club to a bad but uninteresting one (they are currently 33 games out of first place in the league's Eastern...