and Dick Allen, the feared slugger for the Philadelphia Phillies and 1972 American League MVP for the Chicago White Sox, are the new members of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Parker, 73, hit ...

Forty-seven years after he last played in a major-league game — and after 20 misses in various elections by baseball writers ... late Phillies slugger Dick Allen is a Hall of Famer.

I've covered the Phillies for more than 20. I've never written about Dick Allen's candidacy for the National Baseball Hall of Fame, because its truth has always been self-evident. Allen belongs ...