Alvin Glenn Davis nicknamed "Mr. Mariner", is a former Major League Baseball

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 first baseman

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 and designated hitter

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. Davis played his career primarily for the Seattle Mariners

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. He won the American League Rookie of the Year Award

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 in 1984.

Career

During a 9-year baseball career, he batted

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 .280 with 160 home run

Home run

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s and 683 Runs batted in

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. He hit 20-plus homers in three seasons, and drove in over 100 runs twice.

Davis holds the MLB record for the most consecutive games reaching base to start a career, with 47.

Davis, who batted left-handed

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 and threw right-handed, played college baseball at Arizona State. He broke into the majors with the Mariners in and remained there until . Well liked by Mariners fans, Davis held most of the franchise's offensive team records until the advent of Ken Griffey Jr., Edgar Martinez

Edgar Martinez

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 and Alex Rodriguez

Alex Rodriguez

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. He burst onto the major league scene in 1984, homering in his first two big-league games and collecting three doubles in his third. Davis reached base in each of the first 47 games of his career, and was chosen for his only All-Star Game

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 as a rookie. Named the Mariners MVP, he was also voted the American League's Rookie of the Year Award

Rookie of the Year award

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 after batting .284 with 27 home runs and 116 RBIs.

He was inducted into the Seattle Mariners Hall of Fame in .

After eight years in Seattle, Davis signed as a free agent with the California Angels

Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

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. Released by the Angels in June 1992, he joined the Kintetsu Buffaloes

Kintetsu Buffaloes

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 in Japan. Davis only appeared in 40 games there, hitting 5 home runs with 12 RBI.

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