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I'd never heard of colon cancer. Baseball wasn't even important to me. I have a wife and two girls. That's what was important. The doctors told me and all I could say was, 'When are we going to get this thing out?'

Eric Davis

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Eric Davis
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: May 29
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Eric Keith Davis
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