It was announced yesterday that Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, Joe Garagiola passed away at the age of 90.
Garagiola had a nine year career as a player, peaked by a World Series Championship as a rookie with the St. Louis Cardinals, but it was skills with his vocabulary and personality that far exceeded his accomplishments on the baseball diamond.
Beginning in 1961, Garagiola would become a baseball broadcaster for NBC and for nearly 30 years would work games for the network. Most notably, he would work the “Game of the Week” and starred alongside Curt Gowdy, Tony Kubek and Bob Costas. It was a long and fruitful relationship but he would quit the network in 1988 and would work for the California Angels and later the Arizona Diamondbacks.
He was also known for his work on NBC’s “The Today Show”.
We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to offer our condolences to the friends and family of Joe Garagiola at this time.
RIP: Joe Garagiola
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2016
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