Steve Garvey

Continuing our countdown of the 15 greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time, as chosen by our readers. No. 1: Sandy Koufax (6,284 first-place votes, 116,888 points) When you talk about the greatest left-handed pitchers of all time, you start with......

Continuing our countdown of the greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time, as chosen by our readers. No. 5: Maury Wills (39,827 points) Wills is credited by many with bringing the stolen base back to baseball. In his first full season......

Continuing our countdown of the 15 greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time, as chosen by our readers. No. 4: Tommy Lasorda (551 first-place votes, 40,298 points): After spending years with the team as a player, scout and coach, Lasorda became......

Continuing our countdown of the greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time, as chosen by our readers. No. 3: Vin Scully (3,299 first-place votes, 70,070 points) When you think of the Dodgers, the first thing that pops into the minds of......

Continuing our countdown of the greatest L.A. Dodgers of all time, as chosen by our readers. No. 2: Don Drysdale (471 first-place votes, 73,134 points) Big D teamed with Sandy Koufax during the 1960s to form one of the most......

The L.A. Dodgers' Tommy Lasorda turns 82 today, and in honor of his birthday -- as well as his decades-long career in baseball -- the National Portrait Gallery in Washington has unveiled a portrait in his honor. Measuring 60 by......

Sons of Steve Garvey points out that an improved record in 2009 hasn't improved the Dodgers' National League Division Series appeal in the eyes of ESPN.com prognosticators. But there are dissenting viewpoints elsewhere (if you look hard enough for them,.....

"Nobody knows anything, Joe. We'll take this leap, and we'll see. We'll jump, and we'll see. That's life, right?" — Patricia Graynamore (Meg Ryan),"Joe Versus the Volcano." Mike Scioscia's Tragic Illness and Sons of Steve Garvey have it right. You've......

Dampen your post-season Dodger blues with a seven-day cruise on the Mexican Riviera out of Long Beach. It will feature former first-baseman Steve Garvey, first-base coach and former infielder Mariano Duncan and broadcaster Steve Lyons. Interior staterooms...

Eric Karros is on this year's Hall of Fame ballot, a de facto longshot. (Still, it's one more Hall of Fame ballot than I'll ever get on.) If you read Jay Jaffe's writeup at Baseball Prospectus, the best thing Karros......

With the first full decade of Dodger blogging coming to a close, it occurred to me that it might be time to do a little history preservation before too much time passes. So, as you'll see in the chart below,......

Though Rory Markas had already had one near-death experience (a blood clot in his brain 14 months ago), the news this morning of his passing at age 54 comes as a shock. He had just been promoted to the position......