finalyear bats death_date death_place birth_place debutyear finaldate statvalue position finalteam statlabel debutdate birth_date image article_title debutteam name throws
1938 right 15 september 1993 brookings , oregon cincinnati , ohio 1926 june 18 .300 1325 501 outfielder st. louis browns batting average hits runs batted in june 21 1 january 1904 ethanallenbaseballcard.jpg ethan allen -lrb- baseball -rrb-
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ethan allen -lrb- baseball -rrb-

ethan nathan allen -lrb- january 1 , 1904 -- september 15 , 1993 -rrb- was an american center fielder in major league baseball from to .
he played for the cincinnati reds -lrb- 1926 -- 30 -rrb- , new york giants -lrb- 1930 -- 32 -rrb- , st. louis cardinals -lrb- 1932 -- 33 -rrb- , philadelphia phillies -lrb- 1934 -- 36 -rrb- , chicago cubs -lrb- 1936 -rrb- , and st. louis browns -lrb- 1936 -- 38 -rrb- .
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 .
in 1935 , he finished 17th in mvp voting with a batting average of .307 and a league-leading 156 games played .
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 1968 .
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 .
