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Richard Anthony Allen, nicknamed "Crash" and "the Wampum Walloper", was an American professional baseball player. During his 15-year Major League Baseball career, he played as a first baseman and thir
Allen with the Philadelphia Phillies, c. 1965
Wampum, Pennsylvania
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Wampum is a borough in southern Lawrence County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 557 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Pittsburgh metropolitan area.
Dick Allen
…number 15 on September 3, 2020, a few months before his death. On July 27, 2025, Allen was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Allen was born in Wampum, Pennsylvania, one of nine children of Era and Coy Allen, a truck driver. After his parents divorced, he was mainly raised by his mother who worked as a housekeeper…
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Former Wampum High School located on Main Street Extension