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Dodgers fire Steve Garvey
The Los Angeles Dodgers have fired former first baseman Steve Garvey from their marketing and community-relations department, Garvey confirmed to 710 ESPN Radio on Friday.
The move appears to be a reaction to Garvey having made public his desire to be part of a group that would purchase the club if owner Frank McCourt, who has filed for bankruptcy, is ultimately forced to sell the Dodgers.
As a player, Garvey is counted among the team's long list of legends, having been a power-hitting fixture in the Dodgers lineup from 1969 to 1982 before leaving as a free agent and signing with the San Diego Padres.
Josh Rawitch, the team's vice president for communications, declined to address the matter, saying Dodgers policy is to not comment on personnel matters.
Garvey told the Los Angeles Times in April that he had joined with local billionaire Ron Burkle to form an investment group to buy the club, an interview that took place around the time Major League Baseball was announcing its intention to appoint a monitor to oversee the Dodgers' finances and months before the team filed for bankruptcy.
More recent reports have included another Dodgers legend, former pitcher Orel Hershiser, as being interested in joining that investment group as well, something Hershiser also has been publicly open about. However, Hershiser is presently working for ESPN as a game analyst and isn't a part of the Dodgers community relations department, a department that includes several of the team's former players.
Source: AP
The move appears to be a reaction to Garvey having made public his desire to be part of a group that would purchase the club if owner Frank McCourt, who has filed for bankruptcy, is ultimately forced to sell the Dodgers.
As a player, Garvey is counted among the team's long list of legends, having been a power-hitting fixture in the Dodgers lineup from 1969 to 1982 before leaving as a free agent and signing with the San Diego Padres.
Josh Rawitch, the team's vice president for communications, declined to address the matter, saying Dodgers policy is to not comment on personnel matters.
Garvey told the Los Angeles Times in April that he had joined with local billionaire Ron Burkle to form an investment group to buy the club, an interview that took place around the time Major League Baseball was announcing its intention to appoint a monitor to oversee the Dodgers' finances and months before the team filed for bankruptcy.
More recent reports have included another Dodgers legend, former pitcher Orel Hershiser, as being interested in joining that investment group as well, something Hershiser also has been publicly open about. However, Hershiser is presently working for ESPN as a game analyst and isn't a part of the Dodgers community relations department, a department that includes several of the team's former players.
Source: AP