ANALYSIS/OPINION
Longtime local baseball fans will still point to Oct 9, 1970, as the day of the worst trade in the history of Washington baseball.
Denny McLain would agree.
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“I got traded to hell,” McLain said.
McLain, 73, the last pitcher in baseball to win 30 games in a season, was traded by the Detroit Tigers, along with Elliott Maddox, Norm McRae and Don Wert to the Washington Senators for pitchers Joe Coleman, Jim Hannan, shortstop Eddie Brinkman and third baseman Aurilio Rodriguez.