For his son, the baseball executive, see Joe Garagiola Jr.
Baseball player
Joe Garagiola
Garagiola in 1947
Catcher
Born:(1926-02-12)February 12, 1926 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Died: March 23, 2016(2016-03-23) (aged 90) Scottsdale, Arizona, U.S.
Batted: Left
Threw: Right
MLB debut
May 26, 1946, for the St. Louis Cardinals
Last MLB appearance
September 26, 1954, for the New York Giants
MLB statistics
Batting average
.257
Home runs
42
Runs batted in
255
Teams
St. Louis Cardinals (1946–1951)
Pittsburgh Pirates (1951–1953)
Chicago Cubs (1953–1954)
New York Giants (1954)
Career highlights and awards
World Series champion (1946)
Ford Frick Award (1991)
St. Louis Walk of Fame
Buck O'Neil Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
Military career
Allegiance
United States
Service/branch
U.S. Army
Years of service
1944–1946
Battles/wars
World War II Pacific theater
Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016) was an American professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host.
Garagiola played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs, and New York Giants. He was later well known outside baseball for having been one of the regular panelists on The Today Show for many years and for his numerous appearances on game shows as a host and panelist.[1]
^Barnes, Bart (March 24, 2016). "Major Leaguer reinvented himself as a witty broadcaster" The Washington Post, page B4 Retrieved August 26, 2017.
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popular and took the place of some players' smokeless tobacco habit. JoeGaragiola, who quit, warned about chewing tobacco: "I tell these guys, 'You may...
the second consecutive week on the PGA Tour. He finishes one shot ahead of Joe Campbell and Art Wall Jr. 1961: Controversial pro golfer Dave Hill wins for...
did Cardinals and NBC broadcast legend JoeGaragiola, a longtime Phoenix-area resident and father of JoeGaragiola Jr., the first GM of the Diamondbacks...
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York Yankees, and with Vin Scully in 1989 for NBC. Seaver replaced JoeGaragiola as NBC's lead baseball color commentator, which led to him calling the...
1971, then decided to return to acting full-time. He was replaced by JoeGaragiola, who hosted the remainder of the daytime series plus the one season...
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