[Magdalen] R.I.P. Joe Garagiola

[Jon Egger]

Joe Garagiola was also a catcher, one hell of a hard position at any level
of baseball.

Grace and peace,
brud

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One of our favorite movies is Best in Show, in which Fred Willard
> plays an enthusiastic and somewhat daft TV presenter at the major dog
> show of the year, paired with the British dog-show expert of the day.
> "Trevor, they should put a pipe and a hat on one of the
> bloodhounds...sort of a Sherlock Holmes thing...it would be a real
> crowd-pleaser, don't you think?" "Ah, no, I don't think that would be
> appropriate, actually." Anyway, the first time we saw it I spent the
> next couple of hours trying to figure out who Fred Willard was
> impersonating...of course, it was Joe Garagiola...same voice
> inflections, same little squint, similar smile. A bit dafter than Joe,
> though. But clearly a Garagiola style.
>
> Rest eternal and light perpetual for Joe, O Lord. Amen.
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks to Today, even I know who he is.  I think he also did the
> occasional commercial?  For what, I have no idea.
>
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> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>