Beau Allred was an outfielder who played in parts of three
seasons for the Cleveland Indians, 65 games total, in 1989-91. Beau was short
for LeBeau, his middle name—his given name was Dale. He was a star at Lamar
University, but was the 645th player taken in the 1987 draft, so
apparently he wasn’t highly regarded. He was a very consistent minor league
hitter: he had four seasons with 450 or more plate appearances, and in each he
scored between 66 and 79 runs, hit either 23 or 26 doubles, hit between 13 and
17 home runs, had between 74 and 79 RBI, and walked between 57 and 60 times. He
got called up to the Indians at the ends of the 1989 and 1990 seasons, and
started the 1991 season with them, but didn’t do enough to impress and got sent
down to the minors for good in June. His final season in the minors was 1994,
when he played in 60 games at the AAA level, but then his pro career was over
at age 29. I haven’t found anything definitive on what happened to him after
that, but there is a Beau Allred who is a real estate and insurance agent in
Arizona, and that’s where our Beau is from, so maybe that’s him.
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