John Chad Allen is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball. He batted and threw right-handed. Allen played for the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, Florida Marlins, and Texas Rangers. In a seven-season career, Allen posted a .269 batting average with 14 home runs and 84 RBI in 267 games played. Born in Dallas, Texas, his father was Jackie Allen, a cornerback in the National Football League. He attended Duncanville High School and played college baseball for Texas A&M University from 1994 to 1996. After his time with the Texas A&M Aggies, he was drafted by the Minnesota Twins in the fourth round of the 1996 Major League Baseball Draft. Allen also served as a member of the United States national baseball team in the 1996 Summer Olympics. After seven games in 1996, Allen began his first full professional season with the Fort Myers Miracle, where he had a .305 batting average over 105 games. He was then promoted to the New Britain Rock Cats, where he spent the rest of 1997 and the entire 1998 season. In 1998, he had a .262 batting average, 82 runs batted in, and 21 stolen bases. 

February 6th, 1975 in Dallas (Age 49)