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MISTER Davis
I read the AP story in one paper and, except for the lead and when quoting others, they made a point of saying "MR. Davis" a total of Six times in the
short article.
THAT was kind of weird.
On the other hand, the more Lengthy L.A. Times article simply said "Willie Davis" or "Davis" throughout as you would expect. Of course, they also
included his 1996 arrest for threatening (while armed with two knives and a Samurai Sword) to kill his mother and father and burn their house down if
they didn't give him $5,000.
What was memorable about WD was his speed. Jim Murray once commented on how badly he misplayed fly balls early on, but it wasn't evident because he
had the speed to get there and make the play.
This making of lists reminds me once again that people tend to inflate the value of those THEY remember best.
After all, when we're talking about Dodger Center-Fielders, there was once a guy called Duke Snider whose credentials are pretty
good.
* Eight-time All-Star (1950–56, 1963)
* Six-time Top 10 MVP
o 1950: 9th
o 1952: 8th
o 1953: 3rd
o 1954: 4th
o 1955: 2nd
o 1956: 10th
* .540 slugging percentage (37th all-time)
* .919 OPS (50th all-time)
* 3,865 total bases (87th all-time)
* 407 home runs (41st all-time)
* 1,333 RBI (77th all-time)
* 1,481 runs scored (74th all-time)
* 850 extra-base hits (65th all-time)
* 17.6 at-bats per home run (59th all-time)
* Dodgers career leader in home runs (389), RBI (1,271), strikeouts (1,123) and extra-base hits (814)
* Holds Dodgers Single-Season record for most Intentional Walks (26 in 1956)
* Only player to hit four home runs (or more) in two different World Series (1952, 1955)
* One of only two major leaguers with over 1,000 RBI during the 1950s. The other was his teammate, Gil Hodges.
AND, speaking of manufacturing runs during the Drysdale/Koufax glory days, Jim Murray also said once that " Drysdale and Koufax could sue the Dodger
hitters for Non-Support and have a good case ".
[Edited on 3-11-2010 by MrBillM]
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How can you forget....
The brothers, Norm and Larry Sherry.
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
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Help me, who is the other Dodger?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegejim
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Help me, who is the other Dodger? |
Isn't that Don Sutton?
carpe diem!
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegejim
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Help me, who is the other Dodger? |
Isn't that Don Sutton? |
That's what I thought but I am not sure. Jim
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Howard
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I don't know who that is but I am 99.97% sure that is not Don Sutton.
What about Joe Pignatano? (sic)
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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Davis coming in ...
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Willie Davis gets a hit and Tommy does the same... here comes Mr Howard with a chance to win the game... hit it once..big Frank bunts?? From Danny
Thomas Dodger song 1960's
[Edited on 02/24/2007 by nobaddays]
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Ken Bondy
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Howard
I don't know who that is but I am 99.97% sure that is not Don Sutton.
What about Joe Pignatano? (sic) |
Hard to tell. Sutton might be in that 0.03% 
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Ken Bondy
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I'm now with Howard in the 99.97% category. The guy in the locker room with Willie has a space between his front teeth, Sutton did not. Also Sutton
had very curly hair, the guy in the previous photo seems to have straight hair. I'm goin' with NOT Sutton.
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That picture was in today's Chronicle. It's Sutton.
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Ken Bondy
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So much for my detailed forensic analysis
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1963... Imagine facing Koufax and Drysdale in a best of seven series... and the third starter, Johnny Podres, was a former World Series MVP.
Dodger fourth starters in those days were Stan Williams, then Bill Miller, I think. If I remember, painfully, it was Williams who came in in a relief
appearance against the Giants in the '62 playoff game. My portable transistor radio did not survive that inning.
Yes, Ron Fairly at first. They didn't really have a regular third baseman then, they tried a lot of different guys, I think.
Amazing that Vin Scully is still at it. I saw him frequently; we were neighbors where I grew up but I never had the nerve to ask him for an autograph.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Don Alley
Dodger fourth starters in those days were Stan Williams, then Bill Miller, I think. If I remember, painfully, it was Williams who came in in a relief
appearance against the Giants in the '62 playoff game. My portable transistor radio did not survive that inning. |
Dude: my parents gave me a transistor radio that took a 9 volt battery that they had never seen before (it was BKRSFLD). There was only one store that
carried these new fangled batteries. When Mr Williams blew the save I tossed the radio over the fence and cried myself to sleep. The next day I woke
up to the sound of my neighbor mowing his back lawn. My dad seriously tanned my hide but the hurt outside didn't match the hurt inside.
It was exactly 40 years before I felt the same pain: 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals when the refs and the Lakers beat my Queens. I didn't cry
myself to sleep but I could hear my boys. efing Lakers.....
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It was the ears and the nose that gave it away for me.
Yeah, 3rd base was a real black hole for the Dodgers for many years.......really until Cey became a mainstay in the early 70s.
Williams was, indeed, involved in the infamous 9th where the Dodgers had a 2 run lead, only to surrender 4 and lose 6-4.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LAN196210030.sht...
That managed to top the pain of blowing a 3 game lead with 5 to play in the regular season.
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OK, OK, maybe I was off a "few percent" in it not being Don Sutton.
I found the picture in the SF Chronicle and it plainly states that it is Don Sutton.
Do you believe everything you read? I don't! I am, at best, only going to 90% that it is not Sutton. I demand an investigation into this
conspiracy.
Are we just going to sit back and let them get away with this injustice?
After reflecting, maybe I should switch to Decafe.
Didn't Sutton get into a club house fight with Steve Garvey over Cindy?
We don't stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing
George Bernard Shaw
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It's Sutton. He started to "PERM" his hair when it was the style. It was LA of course!
And that's a piece o' chewin tabacckie between his front teeth.........
[Edited on 10/14/2009 by lizard lips]
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MrBillM
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Williams
Yeah, it was Williams after Roebuck ran dry.
A reporter asked Walter Alston why he brought in Williams rather than Drysdale in Game three and he said he was saving Drysdale for the Series.
Although that was pounded on in the press, it ignored the fact that Drysdale (who had a great season) hadn't been effective in the last weeks.
Of course, the Dodgers were pretty ineffective at the close losing 10 of their last 13 games. Speaking of Howard, I saw him whiff at a ball in one of
the St. Louis games that was so LOW and so far OUTSIDE that even his long arms were too short.
For that matter, Koufax got pounded in the Playoff opener.
The Bitterness of the Dodgers loss made seeing the Giants lose to the Yankees all the more satisfying. It was a great series, though, with the whole
thing coming down to the final play in game seven. Ball goes through, Giants Win. But it didn't.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
It was exactly 40 years before I felt the same pain: 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals when the refs and the Lakers beat my Queens. I didn't cry
myself to sleep but I could hear my boys. efing Lakers..... |
You can blame Vlade Divac on that one for not securing that rebound. And Robert Horry.
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Just thought you might want to remember.
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Anybody here see any Dodger games in the Coliseum? I was there for the first one. In center field, about row 100, 3.5 miles from home plate. But it
was great.
Here's a bit of trivia for you baseball fans: In what major league baseball stadium were the most home runs hit in a single season? Nobody EVER gets
this. No Googling.
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