Steve Garvey

General election for U.S. Senate California. Adam Schiff and Steve Garvey are running in the general election for U.S. Senate California on November 5, 2024. Major League Baseball player with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1969-1982) and San Diego Padres (1983-1987). When Steve made his big league debut on September 1, 1969, he became the first position player out of Chamberlain High School (Tampa, FL) to play in the majors. Steve Garvey was born in Tampa, Florida. Garvey earned a B.S. from Michigan State University. He was a first baseman for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres from 1969 to 1987. He founded Garvey Marketing Group and worked with causes such as the Special Olympics, Juvenile Diabetes, The Blind Children Center, The Sisters of Carondelet, United Way, Ronald McDonald House, St. Vincent DePaul Center, and Pediatrics AIDS. Garvey struggled to pay his taxes following his Major League Baseball career while serving as an entrepreneur and pitchman for alternative health remedies. Garvey and his current and former businesses (Garvey Communications, Garvey Media Group and Garvey Marketing Group, among them) are still under a mountain of debt since his baseball career came to an end. Self-reported data showed Garvey owing state and federal taxes totaling at least $350,000 and as much as $750,000. Garvey and his businesses were also named in more than 40 tax liens, federal and state, totaling about $3.85 million over the last four decades, according to documents at recorders offices, largely in Los Angeles and Riverside counties.Some of the liens also named Garvey’s wife, Candace.