Yale Bulldogs Baseball: Yale Bulldogs Baseball Players, George H. W. Bush, Ron Darling, Craig Breslow, Smoky Joe Wood, Ethan Allen, Frank Quin

Chapters: Yale Bulldogs Baseball Players, George H. W. Bush, Ron Darling, Craig Breslow, Smoky Joe Wood, Ethan Allen, Frank Quinn, Dick Tettelbach, Joe Wood. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 76. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ethan Allen item Career highlights and awards item Ethan Nathan Allen (January 1, 1904 September 15, 1993) was an American center fielder in Major League Baseball from 1926 to 1938. He played for the Cincinnati Reds (1926-30), New York Giants (1930-32), St. Louis Cardinals (1932-33), Philadelphia Phillies (1934-36), Chicago Cubs (1936), and St. Louis Browns (1936-38).Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and an alumnus of the University of Cincinnati, in 1,123 games he compiled 1,325 hits and 47 home runs, 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 .See also (online edition) Websites (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Smoky Joe Wood item Pitcher /Outfielder item Born: October 25, 1889(1889-10-25) Kansas City, Missouri item Died: July 27, 1985 (aged 95) West Haven, Connecticut item Batted: Right: Threw: Right item MLB debut item August 24, 1908 for the Boston Red Sox item Last MLB appearance item September 24, 1922 for the Cleve...