Eric Davis

On this date in 2000, free agent Eric Davis signs with the Giants.

"To have my owner (Marge Schott of the Reds) call me a million-dollar nigger; it didn't really sit good with me. But as a 22-year-old, what was I going to do? I put that under my hat and used that as motivation, that if I'm going to be a million-dollar nigger, then she'd going to have to keep paying me well over $1 million."