Ike went to Cocopah Middle School . He took the baseball team to two straight state championships . He set a school record with 18 home runs in one season and 3 in one game . A field there was later named after him . Davis is Jewish through his mother . His mother , the youngest daughter of Bernard and Harriet Gollinger , is Jewish , and his father is Baptist . Davis embraces both sides of his family ’s ancestry . His mother 's family was from Lithuania and immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century . Of those who stayed behind , most of her family were murdered in The Holocaust during World War II
The Holocaust
The Holocaust
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