In February 1970, Sports Illustrated published a story on McLain's participation with bookmaking and sports betting in affiliation with The show 21 stubs the Syrian mob. He maintained to commissioner Bowie Kuhn that he had not done any gaming himself, but invested $15,000 in the bookmaking business.McLain drank a case of Pepsi every afternoon, even drinking them between innings.After his Pepsi dependence became public, a Pepsi representative met with McLain to work an endorsement with the company. He and the representative recognized they shared an affinity for gaming, and then set up their very own bookmaking operation as spouses.

Commissioner Bowie Kuhn suspended McLain prior to the 1970 time to run an investigation into his gaming, keeping him out of action until July, when Kuhn cleared McLain of any wrongdoing, saying he had become a victim of a confidence scheme.McLain had a yearly income of roughly $200,000, also entrusted his money to a lawyer who afterwards lent it fled to Japan. McLain then filed for bankruptcy, listing his debts at $446,069 and his assets in $413. Two months after his reinstating, McLain was suspended for a week following dousing two sportswriters with water. He claimed that Cheap MLB The Show 21 Stubs it was a harmless prank.