RIP Joe Garagiola

[wc1934]

First Yogi, now Joe.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/sports/baseball/joe-garagiola-broadcasting-catcher-dies-at-90.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well

[makoti]

:(

[Elefantino]

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[sitzmark]

Funny, funny man. One of the good guys. RIP

[ptourkin]

He always seemed like a funny, warm man, but I'll never forget the stories about his attitude toward Jackie Robinson and this televised incident with the young (then) Lew Alcindor:

That year, Abdul-Jabbar refused to play in the 1968 Olympics because he did not want to represent a country that did not treat him as an equal. The press pilloried him for it. In a much-publicized spot on the ‘‘Today’’ show, Joe Garagiola, a baseball player turned TV personality, asked Abdul-Jabbar why he wouldn’t play for his country.

‘‘Yeah, I live here,’’ Abdul-Jabbar said. ‘‘But it’s not really my country.’’

‘‘Well, then there’s only one solution,’’ Garagiola said. ‘‘Maybe you should move.’’