A Sea Of Red

Does anyone know where Steve Garland ended up? Steve went to Liberty for awhile but I'm not sure if he came back and graduated.Steve Garland was the head trainer for the NY METS for years. He was there when the Mets won the series in '86.
He would come to Cincy with the Mets and i would go over and hang with him at the hotel ..i got a chance to meet Strawberry and Gooden when they were rooks.That was a good time.

If I am not mistaken he sells athletic equipment to area schools. Uniforms etc

he still lives in Lynchburg. Was an Athletic Trainer for a while at Jefferson Forest back in the late 90s, early 00s. Now, does sell athletic equipment and such to area high schools. Great guy.

Rockthejungle wrote:..i got a chance to meet Strawberry and Gooden when they were rooks.That was a good time.

Did you party with them? sounds like a good time.

I knew Steve in school. Little known fact is he played for Eddie Dobson on LU's first soccer team. In addition to his other talents Steve was a gifted actor, who portrayed Peter in the passion play. He started out as assistant trainer and then head trainer for the Lynchburg Mets while finishing school, and worked his way up to the bigs. He's friends with Ray Knight, and I believe if Knight ever got another ML managing gig Steve might get a call, which would be great for him, because if I'm not mistaken, he came up just short of the time he needs to qualify for a MLB pension.

LUconn wrote:

Rockthejungle wrote:..i got a chance to meet Strawberry and Gooden when they were rooks.That was a good time.

Did you party with them? sounds like a good time.

No i didn't party with them ...i just had a chance to meet them along with Tom Seaver ...

olldflame wrote:I knew Steve in school. Little known fact is he played for Eddie Dobson on LU's first soccer team. In addition to his other talents Steve was a gifted actor, who portrayed Peter in the passion play. He started out as assistant trainer and then head trainer for the Lynchburg Mets while finishing school, and worked his way up to the bigs. He's friends with Ray Knight, and I believe if Knight ever got another ML managing gig Steve might get a call, which would be great for him, because if I'm not mistaken, he came up just short of the time he needs to qualify for a MLB pension.

I forgot about Steve playing for Eddie ...

TheSportsBuffet wrote:he still lives in Lynchburg. Was an Athletic Trainer for a while at Jefferson Forest back in the late 90s, early 00s. Now, does sell athletic equipment and such to area high schools. Great guy.

Do you have any idea if he owns the business or distributes the product? I'd like to get ahold of him ...so i guess what I'm really asking is there a phone number under a business name? Any help would be appreciated.And thanks beforehand.

Steve works for Downtown Athletic. I thought that might be the guy you were asking about and it seems that with all the posts about it that it is the right guy. He does alot sales work in the Lynchburg area to high schools as well as LU (I met him at the FOC one day). Hes a great guy who will do anything to help out when he can

INeedAManager wrote:Steve works for Downtown Athletic. I thought that might be the guy you were asking about and it seems that with all the posts about it that it is the right guy. He does alot sales work in the Lynchburg area to high schools as well as LU (I met him at the FOC one day). Hes a great guy who will do anything to help out when he can

You my friend are way to cool ..thanks alot ....

its no problem, i do what i can

He played soccer until he broke his leg, which got him interested in sports medicine.
He's an old man now.

The name is very familiar. Did Steve attend LCA?

I believe so. I know he married an LCA girl.

While he was still a student AT LCA ironically enough

Steve is actually the Lynchburg Team Sales Specialist (that's his official title, have it in an email from him) for Downtown Athletic and has dealt quite extensively with the teams here at LC. I've worked with him a little to get some winter jackets for the sports info department, which reminds me that I need to get back in contact with him about that.

He seems like a pretty good guy and does his job pretty well from what I little interaction I have had with him. They do good business over there, and you can get some pretty good prices on stuff, although the great prices could be part of some agreement or something with LC, but I don't know.