49 years ago today
A #Phillies fan sent me this newspaper clipping showing the flight of the HR I hit 49 years ago today
A #Phillies fan sent me this newspaper clipping showing the flight of the HR I hit 49 years ago today
Happy Birthday to my good friend & former #WhiteSox teammate Rich “Goose” Gossage #HallOfFame View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dick Allen (@dickallen_15)
Happy Birthday to my old #WhiteSox teammate Wilbur Wood. In 7 career ABs against that knuckler: 3 hits & 2 GDPs View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dick Allen (@dickallen_15)
Happy birthday to our 1972 #WhiteSox teammate Ed Spiezio View this post on Instagram A post shared by Dick Allen (@dickallen_15)
On this day in 2007, Colorado Rockies minor league coach Mike Coolbaugh died on the field after getting struck with a line drive while coaching first base for the Tulsa Drillers. A baseball lifer, Mike bounced around the minors for a decade before reaching the major leagues in 2001 with the Brewers. He played 39…
With his family, many of his closest friends and some of his former teammates in attendance at Citizens Bank Park, the Phillies bestowed on Dick Allen the ultimate tribute a franchise can pay a player by retiring his number.
My former Phillies teammate John Herrnstein would have been 82 years old today. A caring and humble man, John was always more than “just a baseball player”. A few years older than me, We played together in Little Rock (1963) and in Philadelphia until he was traded to the Cubs (along Fergie Jenkins) in 1965….