He's No Alan Cranston

I remember that Bill James' New Historical Baseball Abstract had a comment wondering if developments such as Bill Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky suggested that Steve Garvey might one day be able to resume his political career despite having been a late night talk show punchline for his multiple affairs and children borne out of wedlock.  Now of course Garvey's indiscretions appear fairly quaint for a candidate of his party.  The truly amusing thing is that when I was a little kid everyone just assumed that Garvey would pretty much be a first ballot Hall of Famer.  I think in addition to his playing in LA and appearing in multiple World Series it really had to do with his starting in the All Star Game in a National League infield with Johnny Bench (and later Gary Coleman), Joe Morgan, and Mike Schmidt pretty much every year.  Unfortunately for Garvey, people realized by the time that he was eligible for the hall that a line drive-hitting first baseman who didn't walk much wasn't particularly valuable even if he had appeared on the Johnny Carson show various times and had forearms like Popeye.