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While serving his ice-water suspension, McLain was given a second suspension, this time for carrying out a gun onto a team flight. He was 26 years old. In 1971, under manager Ted Williams, he had been the losing-est pitcher in baseball with a 10-22 record and was value -0.4 bWAR. No pitcher since has dropped more games in one season.By 1972, he was out of baseball, pitching horribly for the Athletics and Braves this season. He did not keep himself in shape, dropped his fastball velocity, and apparently"was 29 but looked 45".
Following his baseball career ended, McLain undertook several other business ventures: He invested in television companies, owned a pub, turned into an author, opened multiple walk-in clinics, played the organ at clubs, took to hustling golf, was the GM of those minor-league Memphis Blues, and once even smuggled a fugitive from the nation for $160,000. He once again took to bookmaking and loan sharking, basing his business from Tampa, FL. He was investigated by the US Justice Department and indicted, tried, and convicted on counts of trafficking cocaine, embezzlement, and racketeering. He was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 1985.
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