http://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/06/steve-garvey/ Voice of the Mathematically Eliminated Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/06/steve-garvey/#comment-11241 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:20:19 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/06/steve-garvey/#comment-11241 Great story, caseybatts. Thanks for sharing it!

]]> http://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/06/steve-garvey/#comment-11240 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:10:54 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/06/steve-garvey/#comment-11240 1978, the summer I turned eleven. My first serious run at collecting cards. As a huge Dodger fan, naturally I gravitated toward Steve Garvey. Our family spent most of the summer in Idaho, my Dad being a school teacher afforded us the time. For some reason, I could not find the Garvey card. I had 4 or 5 Vic Davallilo cards but no Garvey. We get back to my hometown of Holtville, along the Cal-Mex border and my buddy calls me and says yes, he has like 3 or 4 Garveys, lets trade!!! He was a Red’s fan and wanted, I don’t know, George Foster. I get over there, shoe box in hand and we sit down. He pulls out his Dodger cards, bundled together by a rubber band. He hands me 3 Steve Yeagers!!!! I wanted to either cry or punch him. How could he screw it up. Alas, he had no Garvey cards either. I knew the Garvey card was out there because I had the team checklist. Finally, the last week before school started to enter Junior High, I bought a pack, pulled it open and there it was!!! I was so excited that I gave my best friend my 1975 Steve Garvey mini card that my cousin had given me since he didn’t have any 1978 Garvey’s either.

]]> http://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/06/steve-garvey/#comment-4122 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:42:18 +0000 http://cardboardgods.net/2006/10/06/steve-garvey/#comment-4122 1.  Ah yes, let me be the first to respond to the ’76 Garvey. Steve Garvey. The man I loved to hate. Of course I hated all of the late 70′s Dodgers, but none of them quite encapsulated the loathing as much as Steve did. He looked like a statue up there. With something large lodged somwhere small. I am shocked he could even swing the bat, much less club single followed by double followed by homerun to beat my beloved losers the Giants time and time again. Maybe if I had grown up happier, or at least closer to L.A. I could have appreciated this mannequin-with-a-bat-come-to-life, but, unfortunately I didn’t.
For those of you with me on this, remember the time Greg Minton struck him out sometime in the early 80′s for the last out of a game with a sinker 2 feet outside that Garvey must have missed by 3 feet??!! Good times, good times.

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