Sports Writer
- Wrote the often quoted piece
The fundamental reason for the popularity of the game is the fact that it is a national safety valve. Voltaire says that there are no real pleasures without real needs. Now a young, ambitious and growing nation needs to "let off steam." Baseball furnishes the opportunity. Therefore, it is a real pleasure.... That is what baseball does for humanity. It serves the same purpose as a revolution in Central America or a thunderstorm on a hot day.... A tonic, an exercise, a safety-valve, baseball is second only to Death as a leveler. So long as it remains our national game, America will abide no monarchy, and anarchy will be too slow
— Allen Sangree (1907), New York World
- Wrote the short story "The Jinx" in 1910 which was included later in his book "The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond" (1911) which is probably one of the earliest written references to the word 'Jinx' to mean someone being unlucky
- A review of the book "The Jinx: Stories of the Diamond"
Mr. Allen Sangree, the well-known sporting writer, has made a most valuable addition to baseball literature by his recent volume of tales from the diamond. This attractive little book published by the G. W. Dillingham Co., contains seven thrilling stories which embody in full measure, all the fire and dash and enthusiasm of the great game they typify. ... It is most fitting that baseball should have a literature all its own, and no inconsiderable step in the attainment of this literature is represented in this bright, clever and interesting volume from the pen of Mr. Sangree
— book reviewer (Jan 1912), BaseBall Magazine
- Was a member of the Baseball Writers Association of America in 1911 and 1914
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