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Originally Posted by wolf441
Going back to the Cooperstown voting. Dick Allen had pretty decent HOF stats, but was known as a cancer in every clubhouse that he was in.
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That's false. Allen's teammates - Goose Gossage and Mike Schmidt, to name two - and managers (Gene Mauch) all praised Allen as a teammate and competitor. The "cancer" thing comes from him taking the job of a white teammate early in his career and an ensuing fight that was not his fault.