Ten years after Garcia was fired by Major League Baseball, he wants to set the record straight: He did not get fired for trying to evaluate his son-in-law, then a minor league umpire.
Garcia stayed quiet for a decade, not wanting to cause any problems for son-in-law Vic Carapazza, among the top umps of the current group.
A big league umpire from 1975-99 and a supervisor for nine years, Garcia was abruptly dismissed.
Garcia said Solomon was upset over Garcias decision to terminate a minor league umpire, which Solomon denied.
I wanted to clear his ability to be a big league umpire and not have people think he got there because of me, Garcia said.