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Dick Allen, one of the best baseball players not in the Hall of Fame, dead at 78
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Mon, December 7, 2020, 3:29 PM EST


In a different world, Dick Allen — one of the most feared sluggers of his day — might have been marveling on Monday at the news he’d been waiting years to hear. As one of the best hitters of his era and a former MVP, Allen is considered one of the best players not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
He was due to be voted on Sunday
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, with this being seemingly his best chance to get in after falling one vote shy in 2015. But COVID-19 delayed this year’s election.
Instead, we learned of a much sadder fate — Allen died Monday at age 78, according to
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, another baseball legend gone in a year that has taken so many of them. The MLB Players Association
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