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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Criminal that he wasn't in before. Racism