Could you win a US senate primary without really trying? This aging LA Dodger did it
by Lois Beckett in Los Angeles from US news | The Guardian on (#6K5JK)
Conservative moderate' Steve Garvey has a Cameo profile, baseball metaphors, and a decades-old dream of a life in politics
Steve Garvey, the aging Republican Major League Baseball star, has talked about becoming a US senator for more than 40 years.
That dream was derailed for decades by what Garvey called his midlife disaster". Now, at age 75, the former first baseman is finally in the running - headed for a November face-off with Democratic congressman Adam Schiff to fill Dianne Feinstein's Senate seat.
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