On August 24, 1967 — While pushing a car, Philadelphia’s Dick Allen suffers a severe injury when he pushes his hand through the headlight. It will sideline him for the remainder of the season. The Phils will go 14-21 without him.
Allen, cut two tendons on his right hand and wrist Thursday night. The all-star sluggers was pushing his car at home here when he accidentally shoved the hand through a headlight, cutting the two tendons and f severing a nerve. He was admitted to the operating room at Temple University Hospital, where two orthopedic surgeons and a neurosurgeon worked on the hand over a period of nearly five hours.
The doctors said Allen’s hand would be in a cast at least six weeks and that if the healing was normal, he will not have -any-difficulty grasping a bat-or ball. A team spokesman said one of the two tendons controlled the little finger and the other. Part of the ring finger. He said the ulnar nerve was cut one inch below the wrist. Controls Motions this means, he said, that Allen now has no sensation in the little finger and only partial sensation in his ring finger. He said the nerve also controls the fine motion in the hand.
The accident happened about 8 p.m. after the battery of his car a 10-year-old Ford had run down and he was trying to push it -toward a hill to get it rolling. Slippery Conditions It was raining and the surface of the car was slippery witnesses said. He gave one mighty shove and his hand broke the” headlight. Allen’s wife, Barbara, and his mother rushed him first to Women’s Medical College, where the wound was wrapped Then they went to Temple for further examination. A doctor there ordered the 25-year-old star to the operating room. Allen reportedly makes $75,-000 a year. At the time of the accident, he was hitting .307 with 23 home runs and 77 runs batted in to his credit.
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