European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Detro iting the years Rah distract Luc Talone. Theis of thebe com 10 34"bur and to be peace jut an y. _ goal., _ blazing fast Bli Rand his deceptive Slider his image As a baseball hero towers taller. The queue of Auto graph seekers is longer press inter views More frequent outside business contacts More pressing. Through it All Denny s temper fuse rows Shorter. If it was t that baseball added Tomy value As an organist i might ditch the whole thing and concentrate on my music. Really that s where my heart is. Baseball is just a Means to an of 9 Chicago pianist and organist who to lips when Denny was 13, the de troit pitching Ace is a concert organist and recording you re it Ufau to believe this statistic a said recently As he relaxed in the stands at Yankee stadium during a Detroit new York series. Ill make four times As much Money Fromm music this year As from my baseball salary reportedly $30,000 but i never lose sight of one fact. I m More valuable Asah organist be cause i am a successful baseball Pitcher. If i win 30 games there s no telling How much Money i can Mclain shows enthusiasm Only when he is talking about music Golf or flying. Although he took up Golf seriously Only two Yean ago he sio4s Tum ugh 7n. Some Day be rate to put this own Jet. He usually Sticks his coat of shoe in his Mouth when drawn onto the subject if baseball one Magazine writer labelled him mighty others have called him a pop off hot headed Boorish con descending irresponsible. A critic said he had a million Dollar and a 10-Ccnt attitude. Another said he probably would be the first Pitcher in major league history to earn $1 million and throw away $2 million. That s All Poppycock fumes my lain. I m just a Normal Type Guy. My wife Sharyn and i live like most of our friends. We have very moderate tastes. To hear some of these Guys Tell it you d think i was a Kook or imports writers who cover Tiger games carry on a running War with him. They say hell make a controversial statement in one breath and deny it with the next. He Feete he has to give every body a Story one Detroit baseball writer commented. I get along better with out of Tow writers contends Mclain. Once in an interview he was quo Tedas saying the tigers were a country club team where everybody does what they want later he denied it saying May go strike me dead if i said those it s said that Joe Sparma Denny Roommate immediately asked the tigers travelling Secretary to change his room. God might make a mistake and get the wrong Guy Sparma supposedly quipped. Mclain has sharply criticized the City of Detroit calling it a Beer and shot town and the loyalty of Tiger fans. Yet when he was knocked out of thebon in the sixth inning of a game aug. 20 in Detroit when he was shooting Forno. 26 against the White sox Denny said the fans gave him a standing thundering it was my greatest thrill in nobody stood up there As just scattered routine applause said a de troit , a husky 5-foot-ll, 185-Pound or has the rugged features and often the Tough mannerisms of a Chicago dead end kid. Yet he is has no sideburns. His Blond Reddish hair is a neat Ivy league trim. Are of Continental Cut double a god gave me the ability to throw hard says Mclain but Johnny Sain helped. Splits in his jacket no trouser cuff Sand tight fitting. The controversial Tiger for ail his individuality does t buy the Nehru jacket beads and Long hair bit. But if Ron Swoboda and Joe Pepi tone want to do it he added recalling two of baseball s most prominent cases it is their business. It s what they do Between those White lines that constantly refers to his base Ball performance As work inside those White no one has questioned his Success inside those White signed As an 18-year-old Whiz kid out of Chicago set. Carmel High school in 1962, he pitched a no hitter in his first Start a Harlan ky., kicked around the minors and went to the tigers on waivers in1963. Jince becoming a regular on the Detroit club in 1965. He has been a consistent Winner although inclined Tothrow a Gopher Ball. He was 16-6 in 1965. 20-14 in 1966 and 17-16 last gave me the ability to throw hard he says. But it was Johnny Sain the tigers pitching coach who gave him the Slider and the hard sinker an helped him harness his wealth of natural suppose it s control and maturity Denny says of his Success this year. Mclain began playing the Organ when he was 8, about the same time that he started tossing the baseball Roand with the boys in the neighbor was at the Organ that he first started earning got $20 for playing in an american legion was playing in the babe Ruth league for players Between 13 and 15 years old when one Day he Slung his Bat in disgust after swinging at a third strike. The Bat bounced into the Stan Sand struck a teen age girl. She was Sharyn Boudreau daughter of the famed infielder and later Man Ager of the Cleveland indians. Five years later she became mrs. Mclain. Lou is like a father to me say Mclain. He s a great Guy and he can beat me in everything. She s an extrovert he loves All of this Hullabaloo. The other Day someone signed her to a Tele vision commercial on television. Every time i saw her in the House she was skipping through a door saying Fri everybody " Mclain recently went to new Yorkton do an Organ recital for the Hammond co. He had to get up at 5 . An spend 18 hours making appearances and giving think that s the kind of stuff that spoils the honeymoon. I got so tired and fed up i did t think i could stand the recital sports writers sought to interview the american league Sensa Tion. He yawned. He shuffled his feet. Finally he said Why Don t you talk to my Public relations Man Over there he knows everything i writers were incensed. Some of them walked away in a Don t know Why they should get bothered about that Mclain said innocently. I can t pitch and take care of All these details myself. To getting very tired but i want to keep going. So i be had to build a Buffer around myself. I a got a personal manager Frank Scott i have a Man to do Public relations. I have a Man to handle my business affairs. And i have a Only thing i should have to worry about is what goes on betwee those White wife Sharyn and children Don t laugh Whin Pitcher Mclorn i Down at Organ. Thun Day Scptt Mytr 5,1968 it e got a personal manager. A Man to do Public relations. A Man to handle my business ,. The Only thing i should have to worry about is what g Soh Between those White film99 the 5tars and trip is
