 Piper grew up out here in Fairfield, too, but that was long before my time. I saw him one Sunday, played every position on the diamond. One position each inning. He was a pitcher, he was a catcher, he was a first baseman. He could play. Willis attends Fairfield Industrial High a little over a decade after Piper Davis. Willis' closest friend at the time? A young man named William Howard Mays, Jr.,