I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.' |
| | | | | Joe Garagiola's 1952 baseball card. (baseball collection) | | | | | | | “I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'”
| - | Joe Garagiola, 1926-2016 |
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| rantnrave:// JOE GARAGIOLA, a so-so catcher who molded himself into a Hall of Fame broadcaster, and YOGI BERRA, a Hall of Fame catcher who inadvertently became one of the most quotable personalities in sports history, grew up across the street from each other in ST. LOUIS, maintained a friendship for eight decades, and now have died six months apart, both at age 90. GARAGIOLA, who will be remembered by multiple generations as the voice of baseball, is no doubt calling one of BERRA's games in a field of dreams right now. Oh, and he hosted the BEATLES' only appearance on "THE TONIGHT SHOW." RIP... On my first day as a cub newspaper reporter, JOHN STROHMEYER, editor of the BETHLEHEM GLOBE-TIMES, brought me into his cavernous office, sat me down, mumbled a single sentence and sent me on my way. That sentence, "Make sure you spell everyone's name right," was the most important journalism lesson I ever received, and I've carried it with me everywhere I've gone, both in and out of journalism. I thought of it when I read that NIKE lost STEPHEN CURRY to UNDER ARMOUR because a NIKE executive pronounced his name wrong at the pitch meeting and then showed him a PowerPoint slide featuring KEVIN DURANT's name instead of his. Details matter. And those two details apparently cost NIKE several billion dollars... Forget the Big Three. LEBRON dreams of a Fantastic Four... AARON RODGERS has seen a UFO. And he does not object to a certain activity (you're gonna have to listen) before games... WOJ chats with BILL WALTON. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| As the heir to one of wrestling's great dynasties, Teddy Hart has been given plenty of chances -- and blown them all. Now, he faces the legal fight of his life, but he says his best days are yet to come. | | |
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| Ethan Sherwood Strauss tells the never-before-told story of the worst endorsement pitch ever that led to Stephen Curry leaving Nike for Under Armour. | | |
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| Garagiola was known around the globe as a baseball announcer for more than 30 years and member of the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame, but he was much more, a renaissance man of sorts. | | |
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| Florida Panthers co-owner Doug Cifu has seen Kevin Spacey as a criminal mastermind. He's seen him as an angry grasshopper. And he's seen him as a horrible boss. As of last Saturday, Cifu has now officially seen Spacey as a Florida Panthers fan in the stands after the actor attended a game at BB&T Center. | | |
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| To you and I, the average spectator, Quidditch is a fictional sport made up by everyone's fave rags-to-riches Brit author JK Rowling. It's a game played on broomsticks that exists purely within the pages of Harry Potter novels or as acted out by Tom Felton and the old Weasleys on screen. | | |
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| With the state assembly casting a 113 to 25 vote, the longstanding battle to legalize professional mixed martial arts in New York cleared its last major hurdle on Tuesday afternoon, lifting a near 20-year ban. | | |
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| NEW YORK -- France faced a one-goal deficit against Brazil with 2 minutes of stoppage time left, and its manager ordered a full offensive. Christophe Jallet tapped a pass to Antoine Griezmann, and Griezmann gave it one touch before firing top left for the equalizer - and, in this two-game final, the tournament winner. | | |
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| Of course the NHL has a problem when it comes to teams losing in order to get a better draft pick, but make sure to place the blame where it deserves. | | |
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| On March 12, 2013, University of Connecticut freshman forward Breanna Stewart played 37 minutes. She scored 16 points but collected only two rebounds and one block while going 0-4 from 3-point range. | | |
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| As part of a roundtable discussion last week with seven reporters who cover Major League Baseball, I asked the panel whether we would see a woman play major league baseball sometime in the next 50 years. Their answers were illuminating and I saved the responses for today’s column. | | |
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| BOCA RATON, Fla. - Todd Ewen spent the last years of his life with a shadow over him. The former NHL enforcer read the news about other hockey players who had been diagnosed with the degenerative brain disease known as CTE after they died, and he told his wife Kelli, "If they have CTE, I know I have CTE." | | |
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| BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Roger Goodell, the commissioner of the N.F.L., affirmed statements made by a top league executive who said that football-related head trauma was linked to brain disease. "The statements that were made by Jeff Miller and others is consistent with our position over the years," Goodell said at the conclusion of the league's annual meeting. | | |
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| I had just turned seven when Tribe's first album, "People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm," dropped. I had no clue how innovative they were being at the time, all I knew was the "Bonita Applebum" video that played constantly on MTV, Video Music Box, BET, and the Box. | | |
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| Should every child in Britain run one mile a day? The Daily Mile revolution is taking the playground by storm and it's coming to a school near you soon. | | |
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| Japan and South Korea sends much of its top baseball talent to America, but its top soccer talents tend to choose Europe. Is MLS missing out? | | |
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| On the first couple days of NFL free agency, bags of money get handed out to the top-tier guys on the market, while the majority of the veteran players in the league sit and wait for the phone to ring. When the money dries up and the market slows, the common man of the NFL just hopes for another shot, another opportunity to play some ball. | | |
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| Time Warner Cable is floating a proposal designed to end the standoff over distribution of the sports channel owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers to allow legions of Southern California baseball fans to enjoy Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully's final season in the broadcast booth. | | |
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| Being confronted by an armed robber is the type of occurrence that generally offers only negative outcomes. Rationally, with the alternative being hurt or even killed, the immediate reaction would be to hand over whatever is asked for, without question. It's the sort of traumatising experience that would seem impossible to prepare for, unimaginably difficult... | | |
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| Swim for fitness. That sounded easy: I already knew how to swim. So one day I stood on the pool deck looking at all the other happy lap swimmers, from speedy athletes to the portly old lady, swimming slow and steady. I was about to join their ranks, but I was woefully unprepared. | | |
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