Joe Garagiola to Announce Retirement from Broadcasting
 

Garagiola is set to announce his retirement, completely, from broadcasting later today. He's been mostly retired for quite a few years. He's been doing a few games a year for the D'Backs in recent years. He's a legend in baseball broadcasting. He is most known for doing NBC's Game of the Week for many years. That's what I will remember him most. Good luck to him and hope his health is still good for mant more years.


http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/...s_ari&c_id=ari

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This is fantastic news. Not that he is retiring, but that he is alive. I had no idea.

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My earliest memories of watching baseball on TV are of Joe and Tony Kubek on the game of the week and Curt Gowdy doing the World Series.

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I'd call you an old man... if I did not have the same early memories! :thumbup: I always though Joe seemed like a real nice guy and never minded hearing him call a game (unlike my feelings towards Kubek).

I can remember being a kid and my dad giving me a book that Joe Garagiola wrote (I doubt he wrote it, but probably told the stories to a real writer) called "Baseball is a Funny Game". Enjoyable read for a kid that loved baseball.

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I was a Joe Garagiola fan. Unlike some former players turned announcer, he had a self-deprecating approach and a sense of humor to analyzing a game.

My mom loved him on The Today Show.

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Joe and Scully always did an excellent job at presenting a telecast. I wish him the best ! :)

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Here's the article and video of Garagiola's retirement.

http://arizona.diamondbacks.mlb.com/...36584&c_id=ari

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Ha ha ha. That's what I was thinking. In other news today today, Cheryl Tiegs is retiring from swimsuit modeling.

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TWIB then Tony and Joe. Every Saturday, unless I had a game. Fondest memories of MLB, aside from the Reds.
And watching those AL games was like watching Soccer Made in Germany to me.

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For me, I liked watching games played in Baltimore and Detroit. I don't know why- I was 11 or 12, but I enjoyed watching those.