Archie Allen with Baseball Player

A photographic slide of Springfield College baseball head coach, Archie Allen (right), with an unidentified Springfield College baseball player. Allen is in a trench coat and hat. The baseball player is in a uniform with a batting helmet. Allen is holding two baseballs. It is believed that the building behind them is Blake Hall.Archie P. Allen (March 18, 1913 – November 1, 2006) coached baseball at Springfield College from 1948 to 1978. He is one of the best-known coaches in the college's history and was selected to the Springfield College Athletic Hall of Fame’s first class in 1972. Allen was the head coach for three of the four times that the school’s baseball team reached the College World Series. He coached the U.S. Pan American team, was president of the College Baseball Coaches Association, and was commissioner of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Allen also published four books on baseball strategy