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Steven Patrick Garvey (born December 22, 1948) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, and current Southern California businessman.

A native-born Tampan, Garvey played his entire career in the National League West for two teams; the Los Angeles Dodgers (1969-82) and the San Diego Padres (1983-87). He batted right and threw right. In a 19-year career, Garvey was a .294 hitter with 272 home runs and 1308 RBI in 2332 games played.

Since 1988, he has been running Garvey Communications, mainly involved in television production, including infomercials. He is also the host of "Baseball's Greatest Games." In addition he is hired out to do motivational speaking, mainly for corporations.

Steve Garvey is currently married to the former Candace Henderson. For the last five years he and his wife resided in Kamas, Utah; however, they recently moved back to the Southern California area, and reside in Sun Valley. Candace is a former talk show host, who co-hosted The Home and Family Show in the 1990s with Chuck Woolery on The Family Channel (now ABC Family). Candace was a key witness for the prosecution in the "trial of the century" of O.J. Simpson. Steve proposed to Candace on the field just before the start of the 1989 Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and Cincinnati Bengals. Steve commutes to Los Angeles during the MLB season where he works as a greeter for the Los Angeles Dodgers VIP season ticket holders.

Controversy

Garvey has also been in the news for some controversial issues. He and his previous wife, Cyndy, went through a bitter and public divorce. Several women have claimed that he fathered children out-of-wedlock with them. These accusations were particularly damaging to him because he had previously cultivated a very clean, family-friendly image. As a result of these allegations, which came when he was with the San Diego Padres, people began selling bumper stickers saying: "Steve Garvey is not my padre."

Garvey sued the Major League Baseball Players Association regarding his dismissal from the Padres. His lawsuit against the MLBPA was part of a class action collusion suit that hundreds of Major League Players brought against the MLB owners in the late 1980s. Garvey's claim was initially denied by an arbitrator. Represented by famed attorney Neil Papiano, Garvey appealed the arbitrator's decision and, in an unprecidented, legal-first, successfully had the arbitrator's decision overturned by California's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. However, in 2001, the 9th Circuit's decision was overturned by the U.S Supreme Court which held that the Court of Appeals had usurped the arbitrator's role. Thus, the arbitrator's denial of Garvey's claim was reinstated. Garvey's collusion claim was the last of the hundreds of claims to be resolved -- well over a decade after it was first filed.

He also was involved in a multi-year lawsuit brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department over weight-loss ads, against Garvey and one of his companies, Enforma Natural Products. He appeared as the spokesperson in the 30-minute infomercials trying to tell consumers that "Fat Trapper" and "Exercise In A Bottle" stating: ""With Enforma you can eat what you want and never, ever, ever, ever have to diet again...." Though Garvey was not found personally liable, the legal battles dragged on for five-years, causing harm to his reputation.

Highlights

  • 10-time All-Star (1974-81, 1984-85)
  • Most Valuable Player (1974)
  • 4-time Gold Glove Award (1974-77)
  • Twice All-Star Game MVP (1974, 1978)
  • 6-time led league in games played (1977-78, 1980-82, 1985)
  • Twice led league in hits (1978-80)
  • 7-time hit .300 or more (1973-76, 1978-80)
  • 6-time collected 200 or more hits (1974-76, 1978-80)
  • 5-time drove in 100 or more runs (1974, 1977-80)
  • Twice National League Championship Series MVP (1978, 1984)

Facts

  • Garvey set a National League record with 1207 consecutive games played, from September 3, 1975, to July 29, 1983. The streak ended when he broke his thumb in a collision at home plate against the Atlanta Braves.
  • For most of his career, Garvey had a very clean-cut public image. For example, in a TV interview before the 1974 World Series when he explained that "I always try to act as though there is a little boy or a little girl around, and I try never to do anything that would give them a bad example." Garvey even had political aspirations, gaining him the nickname "Senator." That all changed when two years after he played his last Major League game, it was revealed that he had fathered several children out of wedlock, was engaged to two women at the same time, and admitted in an interview that he enjoyed "pumping chicks." His reputation was further damaged when his ex-wife Cyndy came out with a tell-all book.
  • On his first trip to Los Angeles as a Padre, he took out a full-page newspaper ad thanking fans for their past support.
  • In 1981, at a point in his career when it looked like he would one day rank among the game's all-time greats, Lawrence Ritter and Donald Honig included him in their book The 100 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time.

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Preceded byBobby Bonds Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Most Valuable Player
1974 		Succeeded byJon Matlack & Bill Madlock
Preceded byPete Rose National League Most Valuable Player
1974 		Succeeded byJoe Morgan
Preceded byDon Sutton Major League Baseball All-Star Game
Most Valuable Player
1978 		Succeeded byDave Parker
Preceded byDusty Baker National League Championship Series MVP
1978 		Succeeded byWillie Stargell
Preceded byGary Matthews National League Championship Series MVP
1984 		Succeeded byOzzie Smith
Preceded byMike Schmidt Lou Gehrig Memorial Award
1984 		Succeeded byDale Murphy
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