* Happy Birthday, Eric Davis

May 29, 2009

Davis was another of those ballplayers with Mickey Mantle-potential, compared with his friend Darryl Strawberry, who had Ted Williams-potential. Neither of them fulfilled the predictions but both did share a life-threatening malady: colon cancer. Davis wrote about his travails in Born to Play: The Eric Davis Story, Life Lessons in Overcoming Adversity on and off the Field.  You can read a sample chapter here.

Davis turns 47 today.

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