Word: mclaine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...nightcap, both sides went to their second starters, Janet Dickerman replaced Rubin, while Laura McLain took over for Josie Collins for Holyoke...
...McLain proceeded to walk six in the second inning--including three with the bases loaded--to give Harvard a 4-0 lead without benefit of one base...
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...