Virtually the entire baseball world agrees on something.
Dick Allen should be in the Hall of Fame.
That he wasn’t inducted when he was first eligible is a travesty, but not surprising. Allen was a misunderstood and controversial figure and, given the fact many of the sportswriters he sparred with were also the ones doing the voting and the lack of understanding of metrics outside of total hits and homers by most of those writers, Allen’s time on the ballot quickly came and went.
Since then, the case for his enshrinement has grown and, if the Golden Era Committee had seen fit to vote via Zoom rather than postpone their vote because they couldn’t meet face to face, Allen might have been alive to see himself get that final vote he didn’t receive six years ago, when the committee first reconsidered him.