Joe McClain (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Joseph Fred McClain (born May 5, 1933 in Johnson City, Tennessee) is a retired American Major League Baseball pitcher, who played for the Washington Senators in 1961-1962. McClain authored the first victory in the history of the expansion franchise, which is now the Texas Rangers. The right-hander stood 6 feet (1.8 m) tall and weighed 183 pounds (83 kg). After attending the University of Tennessee, he signed with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1953, spent the 1954-1955 seasons in the military, then bounced around the minor league systems of the Cardinals, New York Yankees and the original Washington franchise. He was drafted by the expansion Senators in the minor league phase of the 1960 expansion draft.