Lasorda died on Friday at the age of 93, so I began to think about my complicated relationship with him, and his vehement denial of his gay son.Garvey was a good-looking guy, but interestingly enough, I don’t recall ever having any sort of a crush on him or any of the Major League players growing up, so my interests were purely platonic.
And of course, back in the '70s and early '80s, I wouldn’t admit to anything like that. I even had the occasion to meet Garvey several times as a teenager, and as an adult, and even on those occasions, I didn’t have a sexual interest in him.