Stewardesses Beneath Baseball Blankets
This counts as a D.C. story because Denny McLain spent one year with the Washington Senators. You remember that, right?
Anyhow, McLain is now an author and a blogger for the Brittanica blog. Today, he's writing on alcohol and baseball:
When I was a rookie on the Tigers, we were traveling on a DC-6, a four-engine propeller airplane and the First Class section of the plane was in the rear, away from coaches, managers, and others who didn't need to know. The section had a round card table and a couch around it for about six guys and a United Airlines blanket. Many a willing stewardess found her way under the blanket with one of her drunken sporting heroes. You would be shocked at who made their way under the blanket.
Good times were had by many, and "United" was certainly an appropriate name for our plane because there was a fair amount of "uniting" going on thanks to the lowering of inhibitions due to alcohol.
The Friendly Skies, indeed. So the charter plane turns out to be the Mile High Clubhouse. Etc. Anyhow, McLain wasn't merely attempting to be salacious, although attempting to be salacious is a great way to get picked up by other sports blogs. His 26-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver. Thus, he's sort of suspicious about baseball and the culture of alcohol, although he never says exactly what he would do, and the lasting memory of most readers will likely be the blankets and all that.
By Dan Steinberg |
May 22, 2007; 11:59 AM ET
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Posted by: BigA | May 22, 2007 12:51 PM
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Posted by: Kim | May 22, 2007 02:57 PM
"This counts as a D.C. story because Denny McLain spent one year with the Washington Senators. You remember that, right?"
Many of us are still trying to forget it, because after that one year, baseball wasn't back here for a third of a century.
Posted by: Vincent | May 22, 2007 08:56 PM
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I didn't realize Denny was out of jail. His last run-in with the law was when he bought a company some years back and looted it's pension fund. This was AFTER he had carved out a nice niche for himself as a talk radio host in Detroit.
I can see his blog being entertaining, but I just think he's a bad guy.