![](https://www.dickallen15.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/19720823.jpg)
Similar Posts
![Today in 1980 : Game 5](https://www.dickallen15.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/b1c0b-game5_1200px-768x498.jpg)
Today in 1980 : Game 5
On this day in 1980, the Phillies take command of the World Series with a two run 9th-inning rally against the Kansas City Royals winning Game 5. The game was scoreless until the fourth when Mike Schmidt hit a two-run bomb to right-center. The red-hot Amos Otis led the Royals back with another homer, and by the sixth, K.C. was…
![On this day…. Ryan Howard #200](https://www.dickallen15.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/RH.jpg)
On this day…. Ryan Howard #200
July 16, 2009 Ryan Howard, playing in his 658th game, becomes the fastest player to hit 200 home runs when he goes deep off Chris Volstad with his solo shot in the sixth inning in team’s 4-0 victory in Miami. The previous mark was held by Hall of Fame slugger Ralph Kiner, who played in…
![On this day… Gibson goes deep](https://www.dickallen15.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/1988-kirk-gibson.jpg)
On this day… Gibson goes deep
25 years ago today, the LA Dodgers hosted the powerful Oakland A’s in the first game of the 1988 World Series. Oakland was heavily favored to crush the shorthanded Dodgers, who playing without their leader, 1988 NL MVP Kirk Gibson. When the game started, Gibson was nowhere in sight, he was in too much pain…
![1972 HR #18](https://www.dickallen15.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chi_hrhitters06_800-768x432.jpg)
1972 HR #18
Meant to share this yesterday… My son recently found this HR ball hit on 7/11/72 at Cleveland #WhiteSox View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dick Allen (@dickallen_15)
![Happy 67th Birthday Jorge Orta](https://www.dickallen15.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DLoKhAWWAAAhcNs-768x988.jpg)
Happy 67th Birthday Jorge Orta
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dick Allen (@dickallen_15)
![OTD: John Kennedy Arrives](https://www.dickallen15.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/John-Kennedy-768x511.jpg)
OTD: John Kennedy Arrives
On this day in 1957 John Kennedy becomes the first African American to play for the Phillies. Philadelphia was last National League franchise to integrate, waiting exactly 10 years and 7 days after Jackie Robinson first broke the major league color barrier for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Kennedy entered the game (played in Newark, New Jersey)…
2 Comments
Comments are closed.
Another titanic blast by dick allen. It often makes we wonder. how a pitcher who throws 100mph and is borderline hall of fame worthy gets in because he’s a power pitcher yet Dick Allen who may be the strongest batter ever and has his some of the longest home runs in the history of the and has hall of fame numbers does not get in. One is rewarded for his power but the other is not.
Somebody help! I remember long ago as a child being at a Sox game with my big brother when Dick Allen homered off the centerfield scoreboard. The scoreboard lights said that Allen was only the third player to do this – the other two being Babe Ruth and Hank Greenberg. Did this really happen or is my memory wrong? If it did happen it would have to been hit way over 500′.