No Garvey wasn't "great" - but that's not what the OP was listing... he wrote this (see post #1)
> I don't necessarily mean the BEST players, but the ones that are immediately connected to a time period. These would be the players that even non-baseball fans would have known about during each respective decade. <
And I think that by that criteria Garvey fits - so too would a meteor like Fidrych in the 70s, and very good pitcher named Valenzuela in the 80s - even my non-sports fan grandmother knew who they were back in the day. She'd have known their names just as well as Jackie Robinson, Joe Dimaggio, Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams and Reggie Jackson. Their celebrity trascended the sports page - so even the "non sports fan" knew their names.
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