Garvey

Description for GARVEY by Steve Garvey with Skip Rozin:

Throughout his glorious sixteen-year career, Steve Garvey has been one of baseball's most consistently brilliant performers, one of the game's genuine superstars. Here, for the first time, Garvey reflects on his life---on the field and off- in an autobiography as surprising as it is inspirational.

Garvey's old-fashioned philosophy of hard work and integrity has carried him through a remarkable career, including a World Series victory, Most Valuable Player awards for play during the regular season, in All-Star games and the National League playoffs---few players will leave the game with a fraction of the records he has set.

But there have been problems along the way: disputes with teammates, including a locker-room brawl with Don Sutton; short shrift from the Los Angeles Dodgers after his thirteen years of outstanding play for them--no player had come to epitomize a team more; his well-known marital difficulties.

GARVEY is the inside story from a dedicated professional, a clear thinker who doesn't hold back in his criticism of those he believes threaten the game he sincerely loves.

Garvey Writes about players whose remarkable courage in the face of adversity never reached the sporting press. He dwells on his early influences, such as Gil Hodges, managers Walter Alston and Tommy Lasorda, his teammates and opponents. His frank assessments---encompassing such topics as great hitters like Rod Carew and Pete Rose, great pitchers like Tom Seaver and Steve Carlton, the Dodger management, players' problems with drinking and drugs---will make sports headlines.

Straight from the heart, upbeat, refreshing, revealing---GARVEY is the baseball book of this season.