Joseph Henry Garagiola Jr. (born August 6, 1950) is currently the Special Advisor to
Arizona Diamondbacks
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President & CEO
Derrick Hall
Derrick Martin Hall (born February 17, 1969) is an American sports executive currently serving as the President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Hall joined the Diamondbacks in May 2005 as Senior Vice President and ...
and formerly the Senior Vice President of Standards and On-field Operations for
Major League Baseball
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. He was previously Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations for MLB from 2005 to 2011 and the
general manager
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of the Arizona Diamondbacks from 1997 to 2005.
He is the son of
Joe Garagiola Sr.
Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. (February 12, 1926 – March 23, 2016) was an American professional baseball catcher, later an announcer and television host, popular for his colorful personality.
Garagiola played nine seasons in Major League Basebal ...
, who played
catcher
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for the
St. Louis Cardinals
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and
Pittsburgh Pirates
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in the late 1940s and early 1950s. In 1973, Garagiola, along with Chris Hart, appeared on the game show ''
To Tell the Truth'' as impostors pretending to be police detective Richard Buggy. Garagiola's father and Hart's mother,
Kitty Carlisle
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, were regular panelists on the show at the time and both appeared as part of a prank on their parents. He is an alumnus of
Archbishop Stepinac High School
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It was operated by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York until the 2009–2010 school year, when it became independent of the ...
, the
University of Notre Dame
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and
Georgetown University Law Center
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.
Interview with Garagiola
mlb.com; accessed September 13, 2015.
References
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1950 births
Living people
American people of Italian descent
Arizona Diamondbacks executives
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Major League Baseball central office executives
Major League Baseball general managers
Sportspeople from St. Louis
University of Notre Dame alumni