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William Henry Davis (April 15, 1940 – March 9, 2010) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball and the Nippon Professional Baseball league as a center fielder from 1960 through 1979, most prominently as an integral member of the Los Angeles Dodgers teams that won three National League pennants and two World Series titles between 1963 and 1966.
Willie D. Davis [1] (July 24, 1934 – April 15, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL). Davis played college football for the Grambling State Tigers before being drafted 181st in the 1956 NFL draft .
Willie Clark Davis (born October 10, 1967) is an American former professional football wide receiver who played eight seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Kansas City Chiefs and Houston/Tennessee Oilers.
The members were Lloyd McCraw, Willie Davis, Austin "Ted" Taylor, Aaron Collins, Glendon Kingsby, and Will "Dub" Jones. [2] In 1955, the group auditioned for Modern Records, and were accepted. [2] The group decided to switch to the popular R&B style, with the exception of Kingsby, who left to continue in gospel music. [1]
Willie Davis redeemed himself from his miserable Game 2 defensive blunders by robbing Boog Powell of a home run in the fourth, but to no avail as Paul Blair did the same to Jim Lefebvre in the eighth, and the Dodgers were shut out for the third consecutive time and for 33 consecutive innings, a World Series record. With the 1–0 Game 4 victory ...
William "Wee Willie" Grundy Davis (December 7, 1906 – April 9, 1981) was an American film actor and professional wrestler.
Willie Davis of The Dodgers tied a World Series record stealing 3 bases in one Game, game 5; the record was set by Honus Wagner in 1909. The Dodgers proceeded to win the three middle games at Dodger Stadium and Koufax would pitch two shutouts including a three-hitter with ten strikeouts to clinch.
Davis was drafted in the seventh round of the 1968 NBA draft, by the Chicago Bulls, but he never played for them.He was the French League Best Scorer, in 1969.Davis spent one season in the American Basketball Association (ABA), as a member of the Texas Chaparrals, during the 1970–71 season.