Joe Garagiola passed away...

[Mugwump]

.....the younger generation will never know the baseball wit that this wonderful personality had...........a sad day..

[wsantia1]

They sure won't.

[Ron Sower]

I'm not even a baseball guy, and I loved his wit.

[Rjb3]

I was watching a game many years ago and the manager went out to argue with the umpire. The bills of their hats almost bumped together as the went on for a bit. (Remember when managers could still go out and argue a call?) The manager was right in the ump's face. Meanwhile Joe said " You know folks, these managers all chew tobacco. That umpire is going to look like he's got the measles." LOL I still laugh when I think of that story.

[Mugwump]

I was watching a game many years ago and the manager went out to argue with the umpire. The bills of their hats almost bumped together as the went on for a bit. (Remember when managers could still go out and argue a call?) The manager was right in the ump's face. Meanwhile Joe said " You know folks, these managers all chew tobacco. That umpire is going to look like he's got the measles." LOL I still laugh when I think of that story.

+1...LOL...or...

" While catching for a pitcher who only threw a fastball, Garagiola became
confused when the pitcher kept shaking off the sign he was putting down. He
finally went to the mound and asked the pitcher what was going on, and the
pitcher told Garagiola that he wanted to throw a slider.

"I said, 'You don't have a slider.' He said, 'That's why I'll get him out,
he won't be looking for it.'"

.....or...

"This was my fourth team, when there were only eight in the league,"
Garagiola said. "That told me I was either wanted or modeling uniforms. I
didn't know which. The great Stan Musial comes up to hit. Apparently he
didn't see the papers. So he taps the plate and backs out and says, 'What
the hell are you doing there?'

" 'I just got traded, Stan.'

" 'You did, when?'

" 'This morning.'

"He kind of looks stunned and then says, 'Why don't you quit?'

"You know what I said to him? 'Now?' "