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Joe Garagiola
Joe Garagiola
Name: Joseph Henry Garagiola, Sr.
Born: February 12, 1926
Died: March 23, 2016
Occupation: Baseball player, host, broadcaster

Joe Garagiola (also known as Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr.) (b. February 12, 1926 – d. March 23, 2016) was a former baseball player and game show host. He played for four baseball teams (the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, and New York [now San Francisco] Giants) in an eight-year Major League Baseball career from 1946–1954. He captured a World Series in his rookie year with the St. Louis Cardinals, which was his only World Series win. Garagiola also won the Ford Frick Award in 1991, got a place on the St. Louis Walk of Fame, and received the Buck O'Neill Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014. He then began several broadcasting ventures, including being a panelist on Today for many years, but most notably as a broadcaster for Major League Baseball on NBC from 1961–1988.

Career[]

In the subject of game shows, Garagiola provided hosting duties for He Said She Said, the predecessor to TattleTales, and also hosted the original Sale of the Century from 1971–1974, succeeding Jack Kelly. In 1977, after serving as a panelist, Garagiola took the reigns from a cancer-stricken Garry Moore on To Tell the Truth, hosting until that version's end in 1978. His other hosting ventures included Joe Garagiola's Memory Game and the 1986 version of Strike it Rich.

Death[]

Garagiola died on March 23, 2016, at age 90, following a long illness.

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