{"id":1421260,"date":"2022-04-06T07:59:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421260"},"modified":"2022-04-06T07:59:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:59:54","slug":"former-dodger-and-3-time-world-series-champion-tommy-davis-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-dodger-and-3-time-world-series-champion-tommy-davis-dead-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Dodger and 3-Time World Series Champion Tommy Davis Dead at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-dodger-and-3-time-world-series-champion-tommy-davis-dead-at-83%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1421260&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Three-time World Series champion with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tommy Davis, passed away Sunday night at the age of 83.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/dodgers\/news\/tommy-davis-dies-at-83\">announced<\/a> Monday morning that Davis died in Phoenix with his family at his bedside. No cause of death was given.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Davis was an athletic standout at Boys High School, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mlb-sports-brooklyn-national-league-baseball-6a72cd44866968dacf6db345ab01b029\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to the Associated Press (AP). Not only was he a baseball star, he was a basketball teammate of future Hall of Famer, Lenny Wilkens, as well as a long jumper for the school\u2019s track and field team, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Davis had a successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/player\/tommy-davis-113112\">baseball career<\/a> with the Dodgers. He was a back-to-back, 2-time batting champion in 1962 (.346) and 1963 (.326). Davis was also a three-time World Series Champion in 1959, 1963 and 1965. Davis still holds the Los Angeles single-season records with his 230 hits and 153 RBI in 1962, according to the Dodgers announcement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Dodgers are saddened to hear about the passing of two-time NL batting champion Tommy Davis. Our thoughts are with his friends and family. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GtgsLeCzQN\">pic.twitter.com\/GtgsLeCzQN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dodgers\/status\/1511028208572899333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Davis played a total of 18 years in the Majors, eight of those years being with the Dodgers from 1959 \u2013 1966. Davis then changed teams several times before retiring in 1976.<\/p>\n<p>Davis had originally planned to sign with the Yankees in 1956, but his plans changed after receiving a call from <a href=\"https:\/\/jackierobinson.org\/jackie-robinson\/\">Jackie Robinson<\/a>, according to the AP. Robinson was finishing up his final season with the Dodgers and encouraged Davis to sign with the Brooklyn organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother wondered who was calling,\u201d Davis said in 2019, according to the outlet. \u201cI pointed to the receiver and mouthed the words, \u2018It\u2019s Jackie Robinson!\u2019 I couldn\u2019t believe I was speaking to one of my heroes, although I don\u2019t remember doing much talking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After signing with the Dodgers, Davis received a $4,000 and batted .357 in his first season with 104 RBI, 17 home runs, and 68 stolen bases in 127 games, the AP noted. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/01\/22\/jackie-robinson-contract-auction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Jackie Robinson\u2019s MLB Contract With The Dodgers Is Up For Auction)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Davis finished his career with a .294 average, and a total of 153 home runs, 1052 RBI, and 136 stolen bases in 1,999 games.<\/p>\n<p>Davis stayed heavily involved with the Dodger\u2019s as he worked in the team\u2019s community relations department up until a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife Carol, five children, and 17 grandchildren, the team announced. The Dodgers have planned a moment of silence for Davis in their game against the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night, according to the AP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-time World Series champion with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Tommy Davis, passed away Sunday night at the age of 83.The Dodgers announced Monday morning that Davis died in Phoenix with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}