{"id":97511,"date":"2016-03-24T10:43:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97511"},"modified":"2016-03-24T14:14:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T19:14:05","slug":"player-sportscaster-garagiola-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=97511","title":{"rendered":"Player, Sportscaster, Garagiola passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GaragiolaJoe1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97534\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-97534\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GaragiolaJoe1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"GaragiolaJoe1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GaragiolaJoe1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GaragiolaJoe1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GaragiolaJoe1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0UNDATED (AP) &#8211; Former major league catcher and longtime broadcaster Joe Garagiola (gehr-uh-JEE&#8217;-oh-luh) has passed away at 90.\u00a0 His nine-year playing career included helping his hometown St. Louis Cardinals win the 1946 World Series as a 20-year old rookie.<\/p>\n<p>Following his playing career he had tremendous success in the broadcasting booth, doing games for NBC television and eventually the Arizona Diamondbacks. He also appeared on NBC&#8217;s Today Show and was a frequent guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the Hill neighborhood of St. Louis not far from future Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, Garagiola went on to hit .257 during nine years in the majors.<\/p>\n<p>Which caused Garagiola to once remark, &#8220;Not only was I not the best catcher in the major leagues, I wasn&#8217;t even the best catcher on my street.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0UNDATED (AP) &#8211; Former major league catcher and longtime broadcaster Joe Garagiola (gehr-uh-JEE&#8217;-oh-luh) has passed away at 90.\u00a0 His nine-year playing career included helping his hometown St. Louis Cardinals win the 1946 World Series as a 20-year old rookie. Following his playing career he had tremendous success in the broadcasting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97533,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97535,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97511\/revisions\/97535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}