Richard Anthony Dick Allen was born on March 8, 1942, in Wampum Pennsylvania. The family actually lived in the small hamlet of Chewton. Wampum is 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh. Dick was one of 9 children and was raised by his mother, Era, who supported the family by working as a domestic. As a child, Dick would spend hours hitting rocks as he announced every hitter in the Brooklyn Dodgers lineup until he would get to his favorite player, Jackie Robinson. His mom was forever paying for windowpanes in the town. It got to the point where neighbors would not even ask who did it, they would just show up at her door and tell her it was Dickie again.
Player Profile: Dick Allen
