During his 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he played as a first baseman and third baseman, most notably for the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox, and was one of baseball's top sluggers of the 1960s and early 1970s.

Dick Allen played for 5 teams; the Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago White Sox and Oakland Athletics. How many World Series has Dick Allen won? Dick Allen never won a World Series.

Dec 12, 2024 · Perhaps the greatest of those was Dick Allen, who this week finally got a well deserved MLB Hall of Fame nod. Amid the Phillies setting a record for perhaps the worst collapse in history, Allen set a standard for one of the best rookie seasons of all time as a Phillie.

After three full seasons in the minors where he averaged 100 RBI per year, Allen debuted with the Phillies as a late-season call-up on Sept. 3, 1963. By the following season, Allen won the Phillies’ starting job at third base – a position he had rarely played.

Dec 8, 2024 · Late Phillies great Dick Allen, after years of waiting from his family, teammates and supporters, will finally be a Hall of Famer. Allen was one of two players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Classic Baseball Era Committee, the Hall of Fame announced Sunday night.

Dec 9, 2024 · Dick Allen is truly a Phillies legend. Now, he’s a Hall of Famer. Phinally. Allen was on the HOF ballot for 14 years, but never received close to the 75% of the votes needed for enshrinement by the writers. Twice on the Golden Days Era Committee, he fell one vote

Dec 9, 2024 · Allen, who died in 2020 at age 78, was born in Wampum, Pennsylvania, and he was nicknamed The Wampum Whammer along with Crash — shortened from Crash Helmet, which started when wore his helmet in the field to protect …

Dec 7, 2020 · Dick Allen, the great former Phillies slugger, died Monday at his home in Western Pennsylvania. He was 78 and had battled cancer. Allen’s No. 15 was retired by the Phillies in September and he may have been in line for an even greater honor this week when the Baseball Hall of Fame’s Golden Days committee was to gather in Dallas, site of the ...

Dec 8, 2024 · A beloved figure in Philadelphia, Allen was inducted into the Phillies Wall of Fame in 1994, and the team retired his No. 15 in 2020, just months before his passing. This induction into Cooperstown doesn’t rewrite Allen’s legacy; it validates it.

From the small town of Wampum, PA, Richard “Dick” Allen endured the front lines of integration as the first black ballplayer on the Arkansas Travelers, the Phillies Triple-A team. In Philadelphia, he found a city known for racists attitudes towards black ballplayers.