Allen Thomas Craig (born July 18, 1984) is an American professional baseball first baseman and outfielder in the Boston Red Sox organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Boston Red Sox. The Cardinals drafted him from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006, and he made his Major League debut with the Cardinals in 2010. Besides the outfield and first base, he has appeared at every position except pitcher, catcher and shortstop.

Each season in the minor leagues from 2007–09, Craig finished with a batting average of over .300 with at least 20 home runs. A .306 career hitter in MLB through 2013, he increased his production with runners in scoring position (RISP). In 2012, he posted a .400 batting average with RISP. The next season, he raised that figure to .454, the third-highest average of all time.

Craig has appeared in two World Series and in both made history. In the 2011 World Series, he tied a record by collecting three hits that drove in the game-winning run. In 2013, he became the first player to score a game-winning run on an obstruction call.

Allen Craig was born in Mission Viejo, California, to Ron and Kim Craig and raised in Temecula, California. He has one younger sister named Kendal. His parents had moved to the Temecula Valley in the 1970s so that Mr. Craig could secure employment with the Rancho California Water District. In addition to relocating from Mission Viejo in Orange County to Temecula in Riverside County after Craig's birth, the family shifted residences multiple times before finally settling in Temecula.

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