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A MODERN-DAY CRASH DAVIS

FORMER BALLPLAYERS REFLECT ON PRO SUCCESS AND FAILURE

Cody Decker wasn’t the first minor leaguer to garner the “real-life Crash Davis” moniker, and he won’t be the last, but he might just be the best modern-day example of a minor leaguer who lived up to that billing.

Davis, the fictional minor league journeyman

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