Dick Allen Marquee Hall of Fame 2025

The Phillies sent him to a farm club in Little Rock, Arkansas, to integrate it, and he came up to a city that booed him and threw things. He won Rookie of the Year in 1964, batting .318 with 201 hits and league-leading totals of 125 runs and 13 triples, on a team that lost a pennant it had led into late September.

The press cast him as a malcontent and called him Richie against his wishes. Three straight winters brought three trades. In 1972, his first year with the White Sox, he led the American League in home runs, runs batted in and walks and was Most Valuable Player. He finished with 351 home runs and a .292 average.

He led the league in home runs again in 1974 and left the White Sox before the season ended. Fourteen years of writers' ballots never brought him more than 89 votes. Committees passed on him six times, twice by one vote, before the Classic Baseball Era Committee elected him in 2025, five years after he died.