When the moment arrived, at long — oh-so-loooong — last, Richard Allen Jr. leaned back in a chair in a hotel ballroom and stared at a television. He looked calm, but well, don’t kid yourself. “That,” he said later,

He was one of the very best players of his era and probably should have had his day in Cooperstown decades ago when he was alive to experience it, but the honor finally came for Dick Allen Sunday evening.