Sports Poets Society

https://williamdavidson.org/who-we-are/the-william-davidson-story/ William “Bill” Davidson earned international esteem for his business brilliance and deft corporate leadership. An indomitable optimist who had “winning” in his DNA, he was supremely successful. He also made it possible for thousands of men and women in the United States and across the globe to make a good living and achieve professional success, too. Mr. Davidson built a worldwide glass-manufacturing empire from a small, struggling company . He transformed lackluster professional sports teams into championship winners. He cherished his family, now settled for more than a century in metropolitan Detroit . His is a quintessentially American story , stretching back several generations to a small village northwest of Kiev in the Ukraine . It springs from smart, steadfast parents and grandparents who kept family at the center of life — who always wanted more for their children — and saw it as a personal responsibility to giv