{"id":22266,"date":"2012-10-22T14:53:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=22266"},"modified":"2012-10-22T14:53:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T21:53:54","slug":"touring-the-bases-with-denny-mclain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/touring-the-bases-with-denny-mclain\/","title":{"rendered":"Touring The Bases With&#8230;Denny McLain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 1968 to 1969, few hurlers could keep up with Denny McLain, the Detroit Tigers ace and workhorse.&#160; McLain went 55-15 in those two seasons and became the last man to win 30 games when he went 31-6 in 1968 and led the Tigers to an American League pennant and World Series title.&#160; McLain easily swept the awards that year, taking home the Cy Young and MVP awards in dominant fashion.&#160; To prove it wasn&#8217;t a fluke, he went 24-9 in 1969 and shared the Cy Young award with Orioles southpaw Mike Cuellar.&#160; He also finished sixth in MVP balloting and was the first pitcher listed.<\/p>\n<p>During those two magical seasons no other pitcher won as many as 50 games, let alone came close to McLain&#8217;s 55.&#160; He led all of baseball with a .786 winning percentage, appeared in more games than all but Fergie Jenkins, and tossed an MLB-best 661 innings.&#160; He also fashioned a 2.37 ERA, fourth behind National League stars Bob Gibson, Tom Seaver and Juan Marichal.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/mondaynightsports.net\/clips67.php\">audio interview<\/a> with the two-time Cy Young Award winner and three-time All-Star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 1968 to 1969, few hurlers could keep up with Denny McLain, the Detroit Tigers ace and workhorse.&#160; McLain went 55-15 in those two seasons and became the last man to win 30 games when he went 31-6 in 1968 and led the Tigers to an American League pennant and World Series title.&#160; McLain easily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":730,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-touring-the-bases-with"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}