He was home Sunday night, inside his rowhouse in Southwest Philadelphia, his phone on speaker and connected to a hotel room ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — On Sunday, December 8, Dick Allen ... a release. Allen, known as "The Wampum Whammer" and "Crash", etched 15 years into the sport, mostly playing for the Phillies and ...

Dick Allen , photographed in 2006, “was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame earlier this month. Family members and friends of Phillies great ... at a batting cage. Members of the University ...

We spend a lot of time, in this sports reporting business, putting quotation marks around what people say to further illustrate points and provide insight. Various doings in the sports world have ...

When the leaves turned brown, I’d be wearing the batting crown ... Known as Richie Allen with the Phillies before asking to be referred to as Dick for the rest of his career, Allen was ...

Allen, who was elected Sunday to the Baseball Hall of Fame after a decades-long wait, was then the larger-than-life Phillies slugger who sent home runs flying over the roof of Connie Mack Stadium. » ...

Signed into the Phillies minor-league system in 1960 at the urging of Scout Jack Ogden, Allen’s 1964 campaign has been eclipsed only twice in MLB history. Batting ... of their star rookie of 1964, ...

18-year-old Dick Allen ... Phillies flew him to Philadelphia to see their doctors. He was gone for a couple of weeks with a concussion before returning to Elmira. Coy and I met him at the airport. Coy ...