Alfonso Rafael Garcia (born October 14, 1953) is an American former Major League Baseball infielder of Mexican-American descent.

Garcia played football and baseball at Ygnacio Valley High School in Concord, California.

[1] On September 22, he hit his first major league home run off the New York Yankees' Grant Jackson.

[2] He spent the entire 1977 season in the majors backing up perennial Gold Glove shortstop Mark Belanger.

On May 11, his ninth inning error allowed the deciding run to score in the Boston Red Sox 5-4 victory over the Orioles.

Just as game one of the 1979 American League Championship Series against the California Angels was set to begin, Garcia's brother, John, was arrested.

Garcia had just one at bat in the first two games of the 1979 World Series, and struck out in the ninth against Pittsburgh Pirates closer Kent Tekulve.

He lined John Candelaria's pitch into right center field for a bases-clearing triple to give the O's a 5-3 lead.

Garcia platooned with Belanger at short and occasionally filled in for Dauer at second in 1980, but was hampered by back pain all season.

[11] Garcia saw some action at second base in early May, but he spent most of the season pinch hitting or backing up Craig Reynolds at short.

With rookie prospect Juan Samuel at second base for 1984, Garcia's playing time backing up veterans was substantially cut into.

In the late 1980s, Garcia operated a batting cage business named Cagey Hitter in Pleasanton, California, on the grounds of the Alameda County Fairgrounds.

[citation needed] He is the president of the KG Hitters girls fastpitch organization in Northern California, while also serving as a manager and coach.