[1] At the close of the 1960 season, he was traded to the Kansas City Athletics, who then left him unprotected in the 1960 Major League Baseball expansion draft, where he was acquired by Washington with the 12th pick in the player lottery.

His grand slam against Koufax, struck June 10, 1960, at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, provided all the Reds' runs in a 4-3 win.

[2] Dotterer made the 1961 Opening Day maiden roster of the Senators and logged 19 at-bats with them, but on April 30 of that season he played his final MLB game, after which he spent the rest of his pro career with his hometown Syracuse Chiefs of the Triple-A International League in 1961–1962.

His father, Dutch Dotterer Sr., was a minor-league shortstop who became a longtime scout for Cincinnati, the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees.

Mike was drafted by the New York Yankees (1979, 1983), the Oakland Athletics (1982) and in the NFL by the Los Angeles Raiders (1983), where he was a member of the 1984 Super Bowl Championship Team.