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Right-handed hitting outfielder Ethan Allen never met a pitch he didn't like. In a 13-year career mostly spent in the National League, the hard-hitting Allen hit .300 despite little power and even less patience at the plate. His lackluster play with the glove kept him from staying in one place too long, and it was his first big league stop - his hometown of Cincinnati - where he was the most popular. His best seasons came under Jimmie Wilson in Philadelphia in 1934-1935, when he banged out more than 190 hits each season for the woeful Phillies. After his playing career, Allen served as the motion picture director and archivist for the National League, coached at Yale for more than two decades (one of his players was a young first baseman named George H. Bush), and invented the popular board game "All-Star Baseball."