McLain, just two years removed from winning 31 games for the world champion 1968 Tigers (and one year after notching 24 victories for Detroit's 1969 club), had been suspended for much of the 1970 season by Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn on gambling allegations and had won only three of eight decisions.
Norm Coleman | Norm Macdonald | Norm Duke | Elizabeth McRae | Carmen McRae | Norm Cash | Colin McRae: Dirt 2 | Norm Chow | Alister McRae | Norm Sterling | Norm Stamper | Norm Smith | Norm Robinson | Linda McRae | Colin McRae | Alexander Duncan McRae | Norm Van Lier | norm (social) | Norm Rapmund | Norm Prescott | Norm Miller | Norm Lewis | Norm Hadley | Norm Grabowski | Norm Beechey | Thomas Chipman McRae | Shaun McRae | Norm Zauchin | Norm Zada | Norm Willey |
On November 30, 1972, he was traded by the Tigers with Norm McRae to the Pirates for outfielder Dick Sharon.