Alongside the stage here at the Clark Sports Center, a giant video board began to show a highlight montage to preface Dick Allen’s formal induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. A chyron promised that the attendees would hear Mike Schmidt on Dick Allen,

Southwest Virginia native and former Tazewell High School standout, Billy Wagner, is now in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The famed pitcher “amassed 422 saves over 16 years with the Astros, Phillies,

Dave Parker, who died a month before he was to be inducted, and Dick Allen got into the Hall posthumously after being voted in by the classics committee.