Official Richie Allen Funny Stuff Thread

ICE9

Nothing helps rip up those baselines like a good heater...



Anyone have a photo of Richie scratching his name in the outfield dirt?

Ironmanfan

someone should post a photo of his Sports Illustrated cover from like '73 with the ChiSox with a tube in his mouth as well

zep33

zep33

Ironmanfan

Thanks Zep....I knew someone would pull thru with it

bigreddog

Allen was a truely unbelivable characther! Love em or hate em he did have game.
Dick Allen (not Richie) was one of our favorites when he played for the white Sox

ICE9

From a recent eBay auction for the photo below:

You might look at this wire photo and say, that's not Dick Allen, that's Wally Wampum. Well, it turns out that no one by the name of Wampum has ever appeared in a major league game. But there is a famous player from Wampum, Pa. and that was Dick Allen.

The controversial slugger finished his career by appearing in 54 games with the Oakland A's in 1977. The A's were known for defying convention, to put it mildly, and apparently owner Charles Finley thought it was perfectly OK for his latest big-name acquisition to sport his hometown on his uniform, perhaps to negate one of baseball's oldest trivia questions: Who wore his hometown on his uniform jersey? The answer was someone who came from the town of Seventy Six, Ks., name escapes me.

In any event, this latest and perhaps last peculiarity of Allen's career took place on June 1, 1977, with an unsuccessful takeout slide of Mariner second baseman Jose Baez.

ArchStanton

I didn't know Allen was from Wampum. That makes him another of the Big Beaver Valley greats. There must be something in that Beaver County water. Big Beaver Blvd goes right by that town. Wampum is only two miles from New Beaver, 10 miles from Beaver Falls, 12 miles from the Beaver County Airport, and less than 20 miles from Big Beaver and, of course, Beaver propper.

It is great to see that Beaver was always dear to Dick.

ICE9

Wally returns...

ICE9

Writing in the out field dirt...not happy about something...