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Dick Allen never wanted to go back. When, at last, he was called up to the Phillies from the triple-A Arkansas Travelers at ...
Getting Allen into the Hall of Fame had been Frog’s mission, his obsession, for more than a decade. And now he’ll get to ...
For me, and baseball lovers from Philly just like me, Allen was life-altering. After a nearly 50-year wait, he was ...
Wampum-area native Richard "Dick" Allen will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, July 27. The infielder ...
Mike Tollin called Dick Allen, the Phillies great he idolized as a boy growing up in Havertown and later befriended while both lived in Los Angeles, after he heard the news: Terri Allen, Allen’s ...
He was the first Black player on the Travelers, living and playing in a civil rights battleground. He lived most days in fear ...
The Wampum High School multi-star athlete signed with the Phillies in 1960 on a $70,000 bonus. On his way to the Majors, he dealt with racial harassment while playing for the franchise’s affiliate in ...
The trip was, at its most basic level, about a son trying to know his father more completely. Dick Allen hated his time in ...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — The body of a man found late Sunday morning on the South Side has been identified. A release from ...
The former Phillies slugger nearly won a Triple Crown, hit over .400 during the team's epic 1964 collapse, and check out his ...
State police identified the victims on Sunday as 43-year-old Clinton David Brink and his 41-year-old wife, Cristen Amanda ...
He dealt with the aftereffects of polio to become a prolific winner in the Grand National Series (now the NASCAR Cup) in the ...