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Article: ERIC DAVIS STILL REDS' STEPCHILD.(SPORTS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- January 4, 1996
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Byline: Joe Posnanski
He wanders in quietly. They threw a Reds party for Chris Sabo, complete with a specially made jersey. The Reds pulled out the hors d'oeuvres for Ray Knight. But there are no parties, no news conferences now. This man wanders in quietly, he's just another man on the list.
''I don't know what people expect of me over there,'' Eric Davis says.
Once, Eric Davis was the best baseball player on the planet. There was no one else. He could do things that were unthinkable, hit 30 home runs, steal 80 bases, run down every fly ball. He was Willie Mays and Lou Brock, Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson, he hit three grand slams in a month, ...