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Originally Posted by Scott Garner
Interesting response about Steve Garvey being so prickly. I never would have guessed...
I've gotten Steve Garvey twice at formal signings that were free. Both times he struck me as interesting and very polite.
About a year ago I engaged him in a brief conversation about his NL consecutive game streak. For those of you that don't know, Garvey holds the NL equivalent of Cal Ripken Jr.'s AL and ML consecutive games played record. Garvey played over 1,000 consecutive games without a break, which is pretty tough to do as an everyday player.
Other than his obvious indiscretions with the ladies (he once impregnated two different women while being married to Cindy Garvey), he always appeared to be PC and at one point was even considering a second career in politics.
It should be noted that one teammate, HOF Don Sutton, hated Garvey and called him a fake. The two of them got into a pretty good fist fight in the Dodgers locker room one day, with both ending up with obvious bruises and cuts.....
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Yeah I remember that fight. At the time Garvey could do no wrong and my friends and I just hated Sutton for that...now I'm more of a Sutton fan and Garvey is, well, Garvey.