Dave Parker, Dick Allen elected to Cooperstown

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https://www.mlb.com/news/classic-baseball-era-hall-of-fame-results

What do we think of this? I’ve never been the strongest Parker supporter, but I’m happy for him, especially after his battle with Parkinson’s. If you’ve never seen The Cobra at Twilight, you can watch it on YouTube. It’s very good.

Also, Dick Allen I’ve wanted for years, should’ve been in years ago, fell one vote shy 10 years ago for the Class of 2015 when he was still with us. Still, better late than never.

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1. Richie Allen to Old Phillie Fans

I’m glad he made it. I got some of his baseball cards from back in the early 60s in a box somewhere I’ll probably never find. Someone is gonna hit the jackpot when I’m gone. Not too knowledgeable on Parker.

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3. His rookie card was the 1964 Topps

I hope you can find it, big fan of the 1965 set and he had a nice looking card in that set.

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2. Dick Allen was a real slugger in his heyday.

I recall seeing him hit a home run on the left of center field roof in the old Connie Mack Stadium. Must have been playing the Mets because we passed Yogi Berra who was a coach at the time hoofing his way to the train station back to NY.

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5. We lived 6 blocks from Connie Mack in the early 60s.

My Grandpa was an usher. I got in free after the third inning. It was the most exciting place in the Universe to me.

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6. Wow, that's the life!

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7. Nice

Lots of memories, I’m sure, stand out. Does the heartbreak of The Phold still resonate? That had to have been tough.

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10. I'm still in therapy

The freaking World Series tickets were printed. I had a transistor radio. Listened to all the away games. One by one the season the title slipped away. Gene Mauch living in infamy. But I’ll be a Phillie Fan to the end. Got my 1980 World Series Champ Ring and a shrine to Michael Jack in the garage.

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11. I feel like it's the same for me as a Cubs fan

As over the moon as I was about 2016,, my favorite moment as a sports fan, I feel like it would have been even more special if they won in 2003 when I was a kid and my sports fandom was especially at a fever pitch.

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12. He Hit One At Comisky That Hit The Scoreboard

At tye old park, the scoreboard was 455' and that ball hit 30' up.
It's a legendary homerun in Chicago. Like the Kingman moonshot in '79.

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13. I searched for video but no cigar

I did find that the Hall of Fame is much more exclusive than I thought. 342 Hall of Famers, only 270 of them were players. The rest were managers and execs. So, 2-3 players per year make the cut.

Allen was exciting to watch. As the pitcher wound up, he would often twitch his right elbow, almost an indication this might be a home run swing. He used a long bat and his swing was more powerful than most anyone. He might have been even greater if he hadn't landed in Philly.

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4. I'm old enough to recall when Dick Allen was still Richie Allen.

I think his induction is well deserved, and was delayed mostly because he didn’t kiss the reporters asses. I’m kind of ambivalent about Parker. Offensively, he was similar to Allen — a bit less power. He had a cannon for an arm, but his drug use tainted him for me, even though it wasn’t PEDs, if I recall correctly.

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8. For Parker, it was cocaine

Allen wasn’t the most congenial person, that’s for sure, but his offensive production merited induction. I had the privilege of interviewing the late Hall of Famer, Jim Bunning, and asked him about Allen. He said Allen played like a Hall of Famer, and he was disappointed Allen didn’t make it for the 2015 Class.

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9. about time for Dick Allen to get in.

Criminal that he wasn't in before. Racism