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Willie Davis is dead.

RonBurgundyRonBurgundy Posts: 5,491 ✭✭✭
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Found dead in Burbank home today.
Ron Burgundy

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  • TNP777TNP777 Posts: 5,710 ✭✭✭
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    Very saddened to hear this news. RIP, Willie.


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  • kmnortonkmnorton Posts: 1,051 ✭✭✭
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    My absolute favorite card as a kid.
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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭
    RIP...

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  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    he truly was my favorite player while growing up in L.A......part of the lore of Dodger Baseball is remembering how Vin Scully would describe his trips around the basepaths as well as the ones in the outfield....when i was 9 years old, i was afforded the opportunity to sit in the Dodger dugout before throwing the first pitch from the mound on Camera Day thanks to our family business sponsorship.....Walter Alston introduced me to Willie & we sat together on the dugout bench for a few brief moments and talked about the sport we loved.....lots of baseball memories sparkle and fade, but this one remains as clear to me as the day it happened.

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  • DboneesqDboneesq Posts: 18,219 ✭✭
    RIP Mr. Davis!

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    Edited to add: His stats were pretty decent: 55th All Time in At Bats; 62nd All Time in steals; 69th All Time in Games Played and 82nd All Time in Hits!
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  • PowderedH2OPowderedH2O Posts: 2,443 ✭✭
    I wonder what Willie would have done if he had played in an offensive place and time. His numbers were decent in Dodger stadium in the 60's, which was darned near impossible. Had he played in Chicago or Boston...
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  • SabrgeekSabrgeek Posts: 484
    My first thought was that this was FB HOFer Willie Davis who passed, Willie has been as big as a proverial house for many years and yet he is still amongst us.

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  • GarabaldiGarabaldi Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭
    RIP
  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭
    RIP Willie
  • ymareaymarea Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭


    << <i>image

    My absolute favorite card as a kid. >>



    One of my top 3 favorite cards of all-time.

    RIP, 3-Dog.
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  • bman90278bman90278 Posts: 3,453 ✭✭✭
    I heard the sad news on the radio today minutes after it was released to the press. I was too young to see Willie play in his better years, but my father told me how good he was when we saw him play for the Padres. I still remember looking at the stats on his 76 Padres card back when I was 8 years old and thinking how neat it was seeing a Dodger player from the early 60's play in person.

    RIP Willie Davis.


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  • heritageheritage Posts: 2,662 ✭✭✭
    RIP...Willie
  • relaxedrelaxed Posts: 569 ✭
    Growing up in L.A. I really enjoyed the Dodgers in the 60's and Willie Davis was one of the stars of the team. I got this booklet as a giveaways at the Union 76 stations in 1961.
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  • kidzfundkidzfund Posts: 565 ✭✭✭
    He was one of my favorites too. I remember Vin Scully describing the anemic Ddodger offense as Willie Davis bunting to get on 1st, stealing 2nd and 3rd base, and Parker or Fairly hitting a sac fly to bring him home.

    Joe
  • MLRMLEOMLRMLEO Posts: 269
    Willie Thanks for the Memories, I too grew up in LA in the Early 60s Willie and Tommy where great to watch, none of their cards ever hit the bike spokes!
  • KnopflerKnopfler Posts: 783 ✭✭✭


    << <i>My first thought was that this was FB HOFer Willie Davis who passed, Willie has been as big as a proverial house for many years and yet he is still amongst us.

    Rich >>



    My first thought was for KC Chief WR Willie Davis.
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  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭
    RIP Willie.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • IronmanfanIronmanfan Posts: 5,525 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>He was one of my favorites too. I remember Vin Scully describing the anemic Ddodger offense as Willie Davis bunting to get on 1st, stealing 2nd and 3rd base, and Parker or Fairly hitting a sac fly to bring him home.

    Joe >>



    i think that could also apply to Maury Wills
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  • baseballfanbaseballfan Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭
    this is sad too, i wonder what happened
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