Dick Allen makes the Hall of Fame!

The White Sox Podcast w/ Chuck Garfien

Chicago Sports Network

Sports, Sports:baseball, Baseball

4.7 • 620 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The Winter Meetings began in Dallas, Texas with the announcement that former White Sox MVP Dick Allen is headed to Cooperstown. Chuck Garfien was in the room with the Allen family when they received the big news. Chuck speaks with Richard Allen Jr. about his late father finally becoming a Hall of Famer and he also talks with Dick Allen biographer David Fletcher about Allen’s impact with the White Sox, which team hat Allen will be wearing on his Cooperstown plaque(White Sox or Phillies) and more.

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0:00.0	Hall of Fame. Our first member of the Hall of Fame class of 2025 played 15 seasons from 1963 to 77.
0:08.0	Yes!
0:09.0	Yes! Yes! We did! He made it! He made it! We made it!
0:16.0	Yes! Yes!
0:18.0	He made it! What? Let's go! We! Yes! Maybe. What? Let's go.
0:21.6	Oh my God.
0:22.6	I told you we'll make it.
0:27.6	Yes!
0:28.6	Hey everybody, it's Chuck Garfin.
0:31.6	Welcome back to the White Sox podcast.
0:34.6	And we are here in Dallas, Texas, the site of the winter meetings. We're here all week long.
0:40.4	And the week begins with big news surrounding the White Sox. Dick Allen is headed to Cooperstown.
0:47.2	He needed 12 of 16 votes to get in. He missed by one vote the previous two times, but today he gets 13 votes.
0:56.4	He's going to the Hall of Fame.
0:57.6	So coming up here on the podcast, I'm going to speak with his son, Richard, who was here
1:02.9	at the winter meetings, and we were in the room with Richard when he found out that his dad
1:08.0	was going to the Hall of Fame.
1:09.9	And in our interview with Richard
1:11.9	Allen Jr., who does he call? He calls Goose Gossage, who has been pounding the table for Dick
1:19.6	Allen to get into the Hall of Fame. So that is coming up as well as an interview with David
1:25.5	Fletcher, who co-wrote the Dick Allen book, Chili Dog MVP,
1:30.5	and David's going to reveal some things here on the podcast that you're definitely going to want to hear about the induction ceremony
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