PRINTER'S NO. 2542
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
518
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY MURT, ROEBUCK, WILLIAMS, MILLARD, DiGIROLAMO,
HILL-EVANS, KINSEY, SCHMITT, LONGIETTI, BROOKS, POLINCHOCK,
MERSKI, ZABEL, BURNS, KORTZ, VITALI, SONNEY, RYAN, JOZWIAK,
JOHNSON-HARRELL, ROTHMAN, READSHAW, MENTZER, CALTAGIRONE,
SAYLOR, WARREN, NEILSON AND KIM, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TOURISM AND RECREATIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Honoring the legacy of Richard "Dick" Anthony Allen as a
standout baseball player and his contributions to the
Philadelphia Phillies and calling for the voters on the
veterans committee to elect Mr. Allen to the National
Baseball Hall of Fame in 2020.
WHEREAS, Richard "Dick" Anthony Allen was born March 8, 1941,
in Wampum, Pennsylvania, and grew up in neighboring Chewton; and
WHEREAS, Upon graduation from Wampum High School in 1960, Mr.
Allen was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies for an estimated
$70,000; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Allen played in multiple levels of the minor
league for a few years where he was exposed to poor racial
relations within the baseball industry in the early 1960s; and
WHEREAS, On September 3, 1963, Mr. Allen was called up from
the minor league to make his major league debut for the Phillies
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Allen remained with the Phillies for six
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