Voices of Summer: Ranking Baseball's 101 All-Time Best Announcers by Curt Smith

Author:Curt Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2008-09-20T06:56:00+00:00

JOB GARAGIOLA

Garagiola moved to Phoenix, called the Angels and Diamondbacks, and hailed Arizona's first general manager: "My Rickey!" dad said of son Joe. Pop helped open a gate for former players: the Baseball Assistance Team.

By 2002, the average big-league salary, $29,000 in 1968, neared $2.4 million. "These guys," he snapped. "Where's concern for the players before?" A pitcher couldn't afford to bury his 11-year-old son. An ex-Dodger pondered a raffle to pay for an amputated leg. "Nobody cares about no pension then. Without them, guys today wouldn't be living like they are."

BAT paid bills, bought insurance, above all, gentled shame. Unlatching hope: a conservative, turned do-gooder; the hustler, aiding those whom life forgot.

Bob Dole told Richard Nixon that he was too complicated to be understood. "Aha!" Nixon enthused. "Now you're getting somewhere." Ibid,Yogi's chum. The final gate was knowledge.

TONY KussK

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