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Denny McLain

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Baseball Player

The Resume

    (March 29, 1944- )
    Pitched for Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Washington Senators, Oakland Athletics
    Winner of 1968 & 1969 Cy Young Awards
    Won 1968 World Series with Detroit

Why he might be annoying:

    His Tigers manager, Charlie Dressen, taught him to handicap horses, and caused a gambling addiction.
    He drank a 24-pack of Pepsi before each game.
    He stopped going to workouts in 1969 to show his displeasure for a pitching coach being fired.
    He was suspended for much of the 1970 season for bookmaking activities.
    He got suspended in 1970 for dumping ice water on reporters and waving a gun in a Chicago restaurant.
    He declared bankruptcy in 1970, despite being one of the most highest paid players in baseball.
    His career fizzled up in just a year.
    In 1971, he lead the American League in losses, despite leading in wins just 2 years earlier.
    He played for 3 teams in his last 2 years (1971-72).
    He recorded a cocktail album in 1969.
    He played keyboards in a Detroit bar where Leon Spinks was a greeter.
    He became a partner in a Mafia-backed financial services company in the mid 1980s.
    He spent 27 months in prison in the 1980s for various racketeering charges involving gambling and cocaine.
    He bought a meat-processing company in 1994 and looted their pension fund of $12.5 Million.
    In 1996, he was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiracy, theft, money laundering and mail fraud.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He is the last Major League pitcher to win 30 games in a season (1968, 31-6).
    He is an accomplished organ player.
    He was let out of his prison term in the 1980's because he was given an unfair trial.

Credit: McFly


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 76.92% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 29 Votes: 48.28% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 46 Votes: 45.65% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 57 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 35 Votes: 48.57% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 47 Votes: 65.96% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 112 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 166 Votes: 73.49% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 231 Votes: 69.26% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 401 Votes: 57.11% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 610 Votes: 69.34% Annoying