[Magdalen] R.I.P. Joe Garagiola

[Jay Weigel]

Catchers make pretty good managers, kind of for the same reasons point
guards in basketball make good coaches--both have to "see" the entire
field/court and direct the game.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
> >
>