Herbert Todd Allen (January 14, 1885 – January 17, 1971) was a

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and

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from 1908 to 1925, playing mostly with the

Indianapolis ABCs The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro league baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League (NNL). They claimed the western championship of black baseball in 1915 and 1916, and fini ...

. Allen was born in

Wheatland, Indiana Wheatland is a town in Steen Township, Knox County, Indiana, United States. The population was 480 at the 2010 census. History Wheatland was laid out in 1858. It was named from the production of wheat in the vicinity. Geography Wheatland is lo ...

, in 1885."United States, World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/X5ND-VNR : accessed 23 Jan 2013), Herbert Todd Allen, 1942; citing NARA microfilm publications M1939, M1936, and M1937; FHL microfilm 2240603
/ref> By 1908, at the age of 23, he was playing third base for the

. He played most of his seasons for the ABCs, including a winter season with a mostly ABCs team that played for the

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. After the ABCs, Allen played for a number of years for the French Lick Plutos and the

Lincoln Giants The Lincoln Giants were a Negro league baseball team based in New York City from 1911 through 1930. Founding The Lincoln Giants can trace their origins back to the Nebraska Indians, of Lincoln, Nebraska, from the 1890s. According to Sol White ...

. He appeared as late as 1925 for the

. After baseball, his World War II draft card shows he was working for Hook Drug Company at the corner of California and Market Street, and living in

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. It also lists his closest relative, likely his wife, as Jessie Allen.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Allen, Todd 1885 births 1971 deaths Negro league baseball managers Indianapolis ABCs players French Lick Plutos players New York Lincoln Giants players People from Knox County, Indiana Baseball players from Indiana 20th-century African-American sportspeople