I Told You I Wasn't Perfect

In 1968 24-year old Denny McLain turned the baseball world upside down by winning 31 games for the Detroit Tigers. McLain was also a musician. After he won both the MVP and Cy Young Awards in '68, he cut two albums for Capitol Records and played the Hammond organ in a three-week stint in Las Vegas. But winning games and performing on stage were never enough for McLain. He was driven by an insatiable thirst for attention and adventure and in 1969, flying back from a dental appointment in Detroit that he could have rescheduled, Denny arrived 20 minutes after he was supposed to have thrown out the first pitch of the All-Star Game in Washington, D.C. McLain recounts his fabulous success in one of baseball’s most exciting eras, as well as his rapid fall from glory, two prison stints, and a horrific personal tragedy. It’s one of the most compelling baseball memoirs to come along in a generation. Read more