I Told You I Wasn't Perfect
by Denny McLain, Eli Zaret
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Author: Denny McLain, Eli ZaretEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-03
ISBN: 1572439572
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
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Summary: 4 Stars
Denny McLain was the last 30-game winner in Major League Baseball by notching a remarkable 31-6 record in 1968, while capturing the American League's MVP and Cy Young awards as a member of the World Series-winning Detroit Tigers. Four years later and at the age of 28, he was out of pro ball and briefly played in an obscure league based in Canada.
And this is where the story really begins.
McLain - with Detroit sportscaster and co-author Eli Zaret - cover the highlights of a baseball career that flamed out due to arm problems and personal drama, while giving his side of a number of oftentimes sordid tales that include allegations of bookmaking and mob ties, being suspended twice in one season by MLB, two stints in prison - one conviction was overturned on appeal - hustling golf on a variety of courses, working in the sports media and being an accomplished organist with a pair of albums released on Capitol Records.
The book parallels a FOX Sports special from several years ago - it still airs on an infrequent basis - that gave McLain a forum to tell his story. And as with the cable-TV program, the book is McLain's pitching mound to deliver flaming fastballs at his critics and prosecutors with the brashness that carried him to the summit of pro baseball....before he threw it all away while chasing other games in the deepest shadows of life.
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