It was easy for a child in 1967 to believe Allen was invincible. But a young Shanin Specter saw another side to his idol that ...
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The two players endured racism and personal hardship during their time in baseball but were finally honored as legends by the ...
Dick Allen were alive to see his long overdue selection as a Hall of Famer.” How often do you think that sentiment has been ...
December, when the MLB winter meetings, college football and basketball, and the NFL, NBA and NHL are all in motion at the ...
From 1964-74, among players with 2,000 or more plate appearances, Allen produced a 165 OPS+. That number topped a Hall of ...
What took so long? That was the question that echoed through the night Sunday, along with so many powerful emotions.
He was one of the very best players of his era and probably should have had his day in Cooperstown decades ago when he was ...
For Allen, Sunday's posthumous selection is bittersweet. But for both him and the Cobra, late is better than never.
Finally. Forty-seven years after he last played in a major-league game — and after 20 misses in various elections by baseball ...
The Classic Baseball Era Committee elected former stars Dick Allen of the Phillies and Dave Parker of the Pittsburgh Pirates ...
Allen, a seven-time All-Star and the 1964 National League Rookie of the Year with the Phillies, will be posthumously inducted ...