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Born in Cincinnati, Ohio , in 1,123 games he compiled 1,325 Hits and 47 Home Run s, with a Batting Average of .300, On Base Percentage of .336 and Slugging Average of .410. Allen remained well-known long after his retirement as a player as the inventor of the Cadaco-Ellis Board Game All Star Baseball , which entered production in the early 1940s and remains available, with few changes, today. All Star Baseball and Strat-o-Matic Baseball are the two most popular baseball board games of the second half of the 20th century. Allen also became the baseball coach at Yale University , serving from 1946 until the late 1960s. Reaching the College World Series finals in both 1947 and 1948, his players included future U.S. president George H. W. Bush . Allen died at age 89 in Brookings, Oregon . EXTERNAL LINK |
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