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While preferring the voluntary system, Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres concedes that strong measures should be taken against any player who is given a second chance and fails it. "I'm most concerned about influencing the next generation of fans," he explains. "If we allow players to take drugs and come back, what does that tell the kids...
...Greg Brock is up. The first pitch is a fast ball and a strike. Three seasons back, Brock's promise as a slugging first baseman influenced the Dodgers' enthusiasm for retaining Free Agent Steve Garvey. Though he has been worse than disappointing as Garvey's replacement, in New York not two weeks ago Brock hit a home run off a Gooden change-up that brought Valenzuela his only victory in their three head-on encounters to date. After that game, Johnson lectured Gooden about offering his third best pitch to those who have failed to hit the first two. With...
Just everything goes wrong for Farmer Tom Garvey (Mel Gibson) and his ever- sufferin' wife Mae (Sissy Spacek). The local river rises and floods their corn crop; an agricultural cartel tries to buy them out; the mean old banks threaten to foreclose on their land; and Mae gets her arm caught in a corn- picking machine. But Tom will not be swayed: "I ain't leavin'. 'Cept in a box." And so he joins the farm women of Places in the Heart and Country as Hollywood's nominee for the collective American hero...
First: I' faith, methinks I spied Master Garvey among the groundlings to see Paul Winfield play the tragical Moor in Othello on the very eve that the Padres clinchethed the westernmost division of the National League...
Michael Davenport keeps at it, perhaps unwisely. After more than one episode of psychosis and years of trying to wring poems from a life that eludes him, he marries Sarah Garvey, his daughter's high school guidance counselor, and accepts a teaching post at Billings State University in Kansas. There is no sanctuary on the open plains. The professor tries to write his way out, but finds himself describing the results to his wife and his publisher as "kind of a transitional book - kind of a plateau performance, if you see what I mean." It is a plateau that...