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Probably one of the greatest players in baseball (except from the steroid era and Black Sox) not in the Hall of Fame, Dick Allen.


Richard Anthony Allen (March 8, 1942 – December 7, 2020) was an American professional baseball player. During his 15-season Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he appeared primarily as a first baseman, third baseman, and outfielder, most notably for the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago White Sox, and is ranked among baseball's top offensive producers of the 1960s and early 1970s.


Allen was an All-Star in seven seasons. He won the 1964 National League (NL) Rookie of the Year Award and the 1972 American League (AL) Most Valuable Player Award. He also led the AL in home runs for two seasons; led the NL in slugging percentage one season and the AL in two seasons, respectively; and led each major league in on-base percentage, one season apiece. His .534 career slugging percentage ranks among the highest in what was an era marked by low offensive production.

Allen's older brother Hank was a reserve outfielder for three AL teams; his younger brother Ron was briefly a first baseman with the 1972 St. Louis Cardinals.

In 2014, Allen appeared for the first time as a candidate on the Baseball Hall of Fame's Golden Era Committee election ballot[1] for possible Hall of Fame consideration in 2015. He and the other candidates all missed getting elected by the committee.[2] Allen was one vote short of the required 12 votes needed for election.[3] The Golden Era Committee met and voted on 10 selected candidates from the 1947–1972 era every three years, until being replaced by the Golden Days Committee, in 2016.[4] The Golden Days Committee is scheduled to vote next in 2021, for induction into the Hall's Class of 2022.[4] The Phillies retired Allen's number on September 3, 2020.[5]
Allen was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2004.[6]

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