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This is depressing only to those who saw them play and troubling merely to everyone who has difficulty believing that a few horse races and several 1979 Boston College basketball games were the sole sports events worth fixing over the past 20 years. "Ballplayers gamble," says Sharyn McLain, who should know about ballplayers, being the daughter of Hall-of-Famer Lou Boudreau and the wife of Denny McLain. "You go to the dog track, you see ballplayers. They play cards. What else do you do with all that free time...
With his free time, her pitching husband, the only 30-game winner since Dizzy Dean in 1934, made a little book. During the 1970 season in Detroit, when McLain was the two-time Cy Young Award winner, he brought much hilarity to the sporting scene by confessing to having bankrolled a betting shop that lost money. Gambling data was just starting to appear in the sports pages and on pregame television shows. But betting had long since been classified as high jinks by Damon Runyon, and this was the rollicking spirit in which McLain was viewed, even when...
...thus became the fourth American League pitcher to win both awards. Rollie Fingers of Milwaukee did it in 1981, Oakland's Vida Blue won both in 1971, and Denny McLain of Detroit, the last Tiger MVP, swept the awards...
Almost any other year, the Tigers would have been nearly universally cheered, for no sports town has been more forbearing and no city deserves more cheer. Sixteen seasons have gone by since the Tigers of Al Kaline and Denny McLain won the World Series, and the fans have withstood some bleak years. In Detroit, there appear to be only good times or bad. Record profits or deepening recessions. Windfalls or layoffs. When the Tigers were winning every day in April and May, it occurred to some that they could not possibly have been more in step with the city (unless...
INDICTED. Denny McLain, 39, former pitching star of the Detroit Tigers from 1963 to 1970 and the American League's Most Valuable Player in 1968, when his 31-6 record made him the latest major-leaguer to win at least 30 games in one season; on five counts of drug dealing, racketeering and extortion, including conspiracy to smuggle 400 kg of cocaine; in Tampa...