Tag Archives: Willie Davis

Let’s play two – 1970 Dodger/Reds DH memories

♦ August 31, 2016 ♦ 3 Comments

When you have been going to Dodger games for 46 years many of them just get lumped together but I have a few that still stand out in my mind. It is no surprise I’m sure to the memory experts that I remember every game I went to in 1970 because that was the first …

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LAD All-Stars 1970 – 1979, Cey to Russell to Lopes to Garvey era

♦ July 14, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

LAD All-Stars 1980 – 1989, the Fernando Valenzuela and Orel Hershiser decade LAD All-Stars 1990 – 1999, the Mike Piazza era LAD All-Stars 2000 – 2016, the Clayton Kershaw era 1970 – Billy Grabarkewitz starts off the decade with his only all-star appearance. Before Corey Seager, there was Billy Grabarkewitz  who took the NL by storm …

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Chase Utley’s six hits – by the numbers

♦ July 7, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

Chase Utley collected six hits in yesterday’s loss to the Orioles, the most he has ever collected. Six hits is a special number in baseball, a feat accomplished only 103 times in the history of baseball. Chase Utley was the 3rd oldest player to collect at least six hits in a game. The oldest were …

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Corey Seager holding court

♦ June 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

Five days ago Corey Seager had hit nine home runs and was just about to crack the LAD leaderboard for home runs by a shortstop. Since then, Corey blasted five more home runs and is poised to break all sorts of records this June. For now he can be satisfied with having the fourth most …

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Wilie Crawford last of the bonus babies

♦ August 27, 2014 ♦ 1 Comment

 Willie was only 57 years old when he died on this day (Aug 27th)  in 2004, that baseball card image on this page has always been one of my favorite baseball cards. Some players just look like stars. Willie had it all, perfect baseball build, power, speed, athleticism, but for whatever reason he didn’t become …

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