Richie Allen Phillies First Baseman Rookie of the Year 1964 .318 avg, 29 homers, 201 hits, 91 rbi's
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Me and you, we never booed Richie Allen!
Never understood why people did,
He hit a homer every time he stepped up to the plate,
That's what i remember as a kid.
Richie in the field, out there by first base,
Target of some mighty foul words,
With his shoes he'd scrawl between the pitches,
"Boo", in great big Letters in the Dirt.
Philly Fans, they been known to get nasty!
When "Joe Must Go", they'll run him out of town!
I've seen Santa get hit by snowballs,
And then get hit again, when he was down.
Me and you, we never booed Richie Allen!
Even if he did sometime strike out,
I was too young to read the papers,
To know what all that booing was about.
That big collapse of 64......Ugly!
They blew a lead of 6 1/2 games, with twelve to play!
Some might say the fans were justifyably angry,
World Series tickets printed up in vain!
Printed up in vain!
Philly Fans, they been known to get nasty!
When "Joe Must Go", they'll run him out of town!
I've seen Santa get hit by snowballs,
And then get hit again, when he was down.
Going back to old Connie Mack Stadium,
You teaching me the rules of the game!
We root, root, rooted for the home team!
And those other people should have been ashamed!
It was before the days of the million dollar contracts,
Before the days of the artificial grass,
He stood a bit outside the lines, which made him fair game for those times,
For Richie Allen never kissed the white man's ass
Me and you, we never booed Richie Allen!
Now we'd pound our mitts, we'd yell "We Want a Hit"!
How could they call a guy a bum, after he just hit a home run,
Didn't make any sense to a kid.
Life's been found out all these years later,
Now I know a lot more than I did,
And if back then you knew Daddy, why those other people booed,
Thanks for letting me have my heroes as a kid.
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