Although Dick Allen And Dave Parker Made The Baseball Hall Of Fame, This Was Awful
The post Although Dick Allen And Dave Parker Made The Baseball Hall Of Fame, This Was Awful appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 27: A tribute board signed by fans for recently deceased Pittsburgh … More Pirates outfielder Dave Parker who is being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday afternoon is seen before the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Arizona Diamondbacks at PNC Park on July 27, 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images) Getty Images Dick Allen and Dave Parker entered the Baseball Hall of Fame Sunday posthumously when they should have enjoyed their Cooperstown honors while alive and well. This was avoidable, but it also was predictable. They suffered for being themselves. In many ways, Allen and Parker were kindred souls as African American baseball players who operated as free spirits between knocking the daylight out of pitches on a consistent basis. An occassionally stale game, which often was placed on life support after the Yankee dynasty of Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra of the 1950s, needed the colorful jolt of Allen and Parker during their combined decades of the 1960s through the 1980s, but they were rebels in the minds of the naive. The naive? I’m trying to be kind. Let’s get the only significant difference out of the way between Allen and Parker, and it was a big one. In January 1979, with Parker fresh from grabbing National League Most Valuable Player honors, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed their right fielder with the potent bat, glove and arm to a five-year deal worth $5 million. Parker became the first professional athlete to receive $1 million per year in Major League Baseball or in any other sport. Allen barely earned $1 million for his career. COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK – JULY 27: Willa Allen, wife of the late Dick Allen, speaks on his behalf … More during the Baseball Hall of…
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PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA – JULY 27: A tribute board signed by fans for recently deceased Pittsburgh … More Pirates outfielder Dave Parker who is being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday afternoon is seen before the game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Arizona Diamondbacks at PNC Park on July 27, 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin Berl/Getty Images) Getty Images Dick Allen and Dave Parker entered the Baseball Hall of Fame Sunday posthumously when they should have enjoyed their Cooperstown honors while alive and well. This was avoidable, but it also was predictable. They suffered for being themselves. In many ways, Allen and Parker were kindred souls as African American baseball players who operated as free spirits between knocking the daylight out of pitches on a consistent basis. An occassionally stale game, which often was placed on life support after the Yankee dynasty of Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra of the 1950s, needed the colorful jolt of Allen and Parker during their combined decades of the 1960s through the 1980s, but they were rebels in the minds of the naive. The naive? I’m trying to be kind. Let’s get the only significant difference out of the way between Allen and Parker, and it was a big one. In January 1979, with Parker fresh from grabbing National League Most Valuable Player honors, the Pittsburgh Pirates signed their right fielder with the potent bat, glove and arm to a five-year deal worth $5 million. Parker became the first professional athlete to receive $1 million per year in Major League Baseball or in any other sport. Allen barely earned $1 million for his career. COOPERSTOWN, NEW YORK – JULY 27: Willa Allen, wife of the late Dick Allen, speaks on his behalf … More during the Baseball Hall of…
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