A sad day for the Diamondbacks, and baseball in general, as we lost one of its beloved figures.
"Baseball is a game of race, creed, and color. The race is to first base. The creed is the rules of the game. The color? Well, the home team wears white uniforms, and the visiting team wears gray."
As someone who came late to baseball, and even later to the state of Arizona, there is only one Joe Garagiola with whom I was ever familiar. I didn't know him as the kid who grew up in the same neighborhood at Yogi Berra ["Not only was I not the best catcher in the Major Leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street!