 01/07/2003 3:34 PM ET
Hall eludes Garvey, Valenzuela
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By Ken Gurnick / MLB.com
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Steve Garvey and Fernando Valenzuela, a pair of Dodger greats who spent the twilight of their careers playing for the Padres,
came up short Tuesday in voting results announced for induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Garvey, in his 11th year on the ballot, received 138 of 496 votes (27.8 percent) and finished 10th after receiving 134 of 472 last
year and finishing seventh. There was no Fernandomania among Hall voters as Valenzuela, in his first year on the ballot,
received only 31 votes, just enough to remain on the ballot next year.
Garvey played on 10 All-Star teams (two more than new Hall of Famer Eddie Murray). Garvey lasted 19 seasons, played in five
World Series, won four Gold Gloves, had seven .300 seasons and five 100-RBI seasons. He won a National League MVP
award, along with two All-Star Game MVPs and two NL Championship Series MVPs. He holds three Major League defensive
records for first basemen.
Final results |
| Player |
Votes |
% |
| Murray |
423 |
85.3 |
| Carter |
387 |
78 |
| Sutter |
266 |
53.6 |
| Rice |
259 |
52.2 |
| Dawson |
248 |
50 |
| Sandberg |
244 |
49.2 |
| Smith |
210 |
42.3 |
| Gossage |
209 |
42.1 |
| Blyleven |
145 |
29.2 |
| Garvey |
138 |
27.8 |
| *Kaat |
130 |
26.2 |
| John |
116 |
23.4 |
| Morris |
113 |
22.8 |
| Trammell |
70 |
14.1 |
| Mattingly |
68 |
13.7 |
| Murphy |
58 |
11.7 |
| Concepcion |
55 |
11.1 |
| Parker |
51 |
10.3 |
| Valenzuela |
31 |
6.3 |
| Hernandez |
30 |
6 |
| Kile |
7 |
1.4 |
| Coleman |
3 |
0.6 |
| Butler |
2 |
0.4 |
| Fernandez |
2 |
0.4 |
| Honeycutt |
2 |
0.4 |
| Pena |
2 |
0.4 |
| Daulton |
1 |
0.2 |
| Davis |
1 |
0.2 |
| Tartabull |
1 |
0.2 |
| Jackson |
0 |
0 |
| Tettleton |
0 |
0 |
| Williams |
0 |
0 |
| Worrell |
0 |
0 |
*Jim Kaat final year on ballot |
Leaving the Dodgers as a free agent after 12 years, Garvey signed with San Diego and played his last five seasons there. As a
Padre he broke Billy Williams' National League record for consecutive games played at 1,118 in 1983, but the streak ended at
1,207 games when Garvey suffered a dislocated left thumb in a home plate collision with Atlanta pitcher Pascual Perez.
He returned to play 159 games in 1984 and slugged what is considered to be the most dramatic home run in franchise history
to down the Cubs in the NLCS, sending the Padres to their first World Series.
Garvey, who retired after the 1987 season, appeared in three of his 10 All-Star Games as a Padre.
Valenzuela played on six All-Star teams in a 17-year career. In his magical 1981 Fernandomania debut season with the World
Series-winning Dodgers, he won the National League Cy Young and Rookie of the Year awards and placed fifth in MVP
voting.
Valenzuela was released after a 10-year Dodgers career, then bounced among five Major League teams and the Mexican
League over his last seven seasons. Valenzuela had two winning years in San Diego, going 8-3 in 1995 and 13-8 in 1996, but
went 2-8 the following year before being dealt in midseason to the Cardinals, who waived him a month later.
A 21-game winner and Cy Young runner-up in 1986, Valenzuela was a workhorse who completed more than one-quarter of his
424 career starts. It is generally believed, however, that his heavy workload (averaging 265 innings from 1982-87) contributed
to a 1988 shoulder injury. He was never quite the same after it.
Ken Gurnick is a reporter for MLB.com. This article was not subject to approval by Major League Baseball or its
clubs.
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