How can you not like Ritchie Allen?

As a new dad, he might want you to call him Dick Allen now, but he'll always be Ritchie to me. I remember meeting Ritchie Allen one year in the 1990s at a PBA Regional in Raytown, Mo. You could sense there was something special about him then — he was disarmingly direct but also respectful, and he had a game that was unpolished but full of promise. It did...