Joe Garagiola

Position: Catcher

Bats: Left • Throws: Right

6-0, 190lb (183cm, 86kg)

Born: February 12, 1926 in St. Louis, MO us

Died: March 23, 2016 in Scottsdale, AZ

Buried: Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis, MO

High School: St. Mary's HS (St. Louis, MO)

Debut: May 26, 1946 (Age 20-103d, 10,153rd in major league history)
vs. CIN 4 AB, 1 H, 0 HR, 0 RBI, 0 SB

Last Game: September 26, 1954 (Age 28-226d)
vs. PHI 2 AB, 2 H, 0 HR, 1 RBI, 0 SB

Rookie Status: Exceeded rookie limits during 1946 season

Full Name: Joseph Henry Garagiola

Pronunciation: \GAR-uh-jee-O-luh\

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1946 World Series

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SUMMARY

Career

WAR

8.0

1872

481

.257

198

RBI

255

OBP

.354

SLG

.385

OPS

.739

OPS+

Fielding stats are given overall and by position. In some cases, they will be identical.

1952 Fielding Game Log (overall)

1952 Fielding Game Log (overall)
Rk	Gtm	Date	Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
1	1	Apr 15	PIT	@	STL	L,2-3	GF	3	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	PH C
2	2	Apr 16	PIT	@	STL	L,5-6	GF	0	2.0	0	0	0	0	0
3	3	Apr 17	PIT	@	STL	W,5-3	CG	0	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
4	5 (1)	Apr 19	PIT		CIN	L,3-9	CG	45	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
5	7 (1)	Apr 20 (2)	PIT		CIN	L,2-12	GS	24	5.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
6	10 (2)	Apr 25	PIT		STL	L,4-6	CG	41	9.0	5	1	0	6	0	C
7	11	Apr 26	PIT	@	CIN	L,2-9	CG	39	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
8	13 (1)	Apr 27 (2)	PIT	@	CIN	L,0-1	CG	35	8.2	5	2	0	7	0	C
9	15 (1)	Apr 30	PIT		BSN	W,11-5	CG	36	9.0	5	1	0	6	0	C
May			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
10	16	May 1	PIT		NYG	L,5-13	GS	35	6.0	4	1	0	5	0
11	17	May 2	PIT		NYG	L,3-5	GS	34	8.0	4	1	1	6	0
12	19 (1)	May 4	PIT		BRO	L,0-6	CG	36	9.0	3	1	0	4	0	C
13	20	May 5	PIT		BRO	L,1-5	CG	35	8.0	6	1	1	8	0	C
14	21	May 6	PIT		PHI	L,0-6	GF	0	3.0	0	0	0	0	0
15	22	May 7	PIT		PHI	W,5-1	CG	0	9.0	4	2	0	6	0
16	23	May 10	PIT	@	CHC	L,1-3	CG	35	8.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
17	25 (1)	May 11 (2)	PIT	@	CHC	W,11-2	CG	0	9.0	3	0	0	3	0
18	26	May 13	PIT	@	BSN	L,1-3	CG	35	8.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
19	27	May 14	PIT	@	BSN	L,3-4	GF	13	2.2	3	0	0	3	0	PH C
20	28	May 15	PIT	@	BRO	L,0-2	CG	32	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
21	29	May 16	PIT	@	BRO	L,4-6	GS	35	7.0	3	4	0	7	0	C
22	30	May 17	PIT	@	BRO	L,7-12	CG	43	8.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
23	31	May 19	PIT	@	NYG	L,0-4	CG	36	8.0	2	1	0	3	1	C
24	32	May 21	PIT	@	PHI	L,3-7	CG	34	8.0	3	2	0	5	0	C
25	34 (1)	May 23	PIT		CHC	W,6-5	GF	0	4.0	2	1	0	3	0
26	36 (1)	May 25	PIT		CHC	L,4-5	CG	0	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
27	37	May 26	PIT		CIN	W,6-3	CG	37	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
28	38	May 27	PIT		CIN	L,4-5	GS	45	10.0	9	2	0	11	0	C
29	41 (2)	May 30 (1)	PIT		STL	L,2-3	GS	0	8.0	3	1	0	4	0
30	43 (1)	May 31	PIT		PHI	W,5-3	CG	33	9.0	2	0	0	2	0	C
Jun			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
31	45 (1)	Jun 1 (2)	PIT		PHI	W,2-1	CG	31	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
32	46	Jun 3	PIT		BRO	L,4-6	CG	36	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
33	47	Jun 4	PIT		BRO	L,4-7	CG	45	9.0	7	2	0	9	0	C
34	48	Jun 5	PIT		BRO	L,0-2	CG	45	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
35	49	Jun 6	PIT		NYG	W,8-1	CG	37	9.0	7	0	0	7	0
36	50	Jun 7	PIT		NYG	L,5-7	GS	0	6.0	6	0	0	6	0
37	51	Jun 8	PIT		NYG	L,1-9	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	0
38	52	Jun 9	PIT		BSN	L,2-3	CG	40	9.0	2	1	0	3	0	C
39	54 (1)	Jun 11	PIT		BSN	W,5-0	GS	21	6.0	3	2	0	5	2	C
40	55	Jun 12	PIT		BSN	L,2-11	CG	45	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
41	56	Jun 14	PIT	@	PHI	L,2-4	GS	28	6.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
42	57	Jun 15 (1)	PIT	@	PHI	W,6-0	CG	30	9.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
43	59 (1)	Jun 16	PIT	@	PHI	L,4-5	CG	36	8.0	1	1	0	2	0	C
44	62 (2)	Jun 19	PIT	@	NYG	W,8-1	CG	35	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
45	63	Jun 20	PIT	@	BRO	L,4-5	CG	36	8.2	4	0	0	4	0	C
46	64	Jun 21	PIT	@	BRO	L,4-14	CG	47	8.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
47	65	Jun 23	PIT	@	BSN	L,3-9	GF	9	1.0	0	0	2	2	0	PH C
48	66	Jun 24	PIT	@	BSN	L,3-4	CG	38	8.0	3	2	1	6	0	C
49	67	Jun 25	PIT	@	BSN	L,2-5	CG	34	8.0	3	1	0	4	1	C
50	69 (1)	Jun 28	PIT		STL	L,3-4	CG	0	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
51	70	Jun 29	PIT		STL	W,2-1	CG	0	5.0	1	0	0	1	0
52	71	Jun 30	PIT	@	CHC	L,4-5	CG	36	8.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
Jul			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
53	74 (2)	Jul 2 (2)	PIT	@	CHC	L,0-3	CG	34	7.0	3	1	0	4	0
54	75	Jul 3	PIT	@	CIN	L,1-5	CG	33	8.0	2	0	0	2	0
55	77 (1)	Jul 4 (2)	PIT	@	CIN	W,5-2	CG	34	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
56	80 (2)	Jul 6 (2)	PIT	@	STL	L,4-6	CG	37	8.0	3	1	0	4	1
57	81	Jul 10	PIT		NYG	W,6-4	CG	51	12.0	10	3	0	13	0
58	82	Jul 11	PIT		NYG	W,6-2	CG	34	9.0	4	0	1	5	0	C
59	84 (1)	Jul 13 (1)	PIT		BSN	L,2-4	CG	40	9.0	3	1	0	4	0	C
60	85	Jul 13 (2)	PIT		BSN	L,1-2	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0	PH C
61	87 (1)	Jul 16	PIT		PHI	L,7-8	GS	25	6.0	2	1	1	4	0	C
62	91 (3)	Jul 19	PIT		BRO	L,1-9	CG	44	9.0	3	1	0	4	0	C
63	92	Jul 20	PIT		BRO	L,5-8	CG	40	9.0	3	1	0	4	0	C
64	94 (1)	Jul 22 (2)	PIT	@	PHI	L,1-8	CG	36	8.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
65	97 (2)	Jul 26	PIT	@	BSN	W,6-4	CG	41	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
66	99 (1)	Jul 27 (2)	PIT	@	BSN	T,3-3	CG	43	11.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
67	100	Jul 29	PIT	@	BRO	W,7-1	GF	17	5.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
68	101	Jul 30	PIT	@	BRO	L,3-4	CG	39	9.2	4	1	0	5	0	C
69	103 (1)	Jul 31 (2)	PIT	@	BRO	L,1-4	CG	32	8.0	8	0	0	8	0	C
Aug			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
70	104	Aug 1	PIT	@	NYG	L,3-7	CG	33	8.0	5	0	0	5	0	C
71	107 (2)	Aug 3 (2)	PIT	@	NYG	W,10-8	CG	29	6.0	1	1	0	2	0	C
72	108	Aug 5	PIT		STL	L,3-4	GF	0	2.0	1	0	0	1	0
73	109	Aug 6 (1)	PIT		STL	L,2-7	GS	0	7.0	5	1	0	6	0
74	110	Aug 6 (2)	PIT		STL	L,2-3	GF	4	1.0	0	0	0	0	0
75	111	Aug 8	PIT		CHC	W,1-0	CG	0	10.0	8	0	0	8	0
76	112	Aug 9	PIT		CHC	W,4-3	CG	38	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
77	113	Aug 10 (1)	PIT		CHC	L,5-9	CG	0	9.0	6	1	0	7	1
78	115 (1)	Aug 11	PIT		CIN	L,4-10	CG	42	9.0	8	0	1	9	0	C
79	116	Aug 14	PIT	@	STL	W,5-3	CG	0	10.0	4	0	0	4	0
80	117	Aug 15	PIT	@	STL	L,4-5	GS	0	6.0	5	0	0	5	0
81	119 (1)	Aug 17 (1)	PIT	@	CHC	L,2-5	CG	36	8.0	3	0	0	3	0	C
82	121 (1)	Aug 18	PIT	@	CHC	L,3-4	CG	36	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
83	122	Aug 19	PIT		PHI	L,5-10	CG	0	9.0	3	1	0	4	1
84	123	Aug 20	PIT		PHI	L,1-3	CG	38	9.0	8	2	1	11	0	C
85	124	Aug 22 (1)	PIT		BRO	L,2-9	CG	46	9.0	7	0	0	7	0	C
86	128 (3)	Aug 24 (2)	PIT		BSN	L,3-5	CG	41	10.0	4	3	0	7	0	C
87	129	Aug 26	PIT		NYG	L,7-14	CG	46	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
88	130	Aug 27	PIT		NYG	L,4-5	CG	42	9.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
89	132 (1)	Aug 30	PIT		STL	L,2-12	CG	0	9.0	2	0	0	2	0
September			Tm		Opp	Rslt	Inngs	BF	Inn	PO	A	E	Ch	DP	Pos
90	134 (1)	Sep 1 (1)	PIT		CHC	L,0-6	CG	37	9.0	1	1	0	2	0
91	137 (2)	Sep 4	PIT	@	CIN	L,2-7	CG	35	8.0	6	3	0	9	2
92	139 (1)	Sep 6	PIT	@	STL	L,4-7	CG	40	9.1	3	0	0	3	0	C
93	140	Sep 7	PIT	@	STL	L,3-4	CG	0	8.1	4	1	0	5	0
94	142 (1)	Sep 10	PIT	@	NYG	L,2-3	GS	32	8.0	5	1	0	6	0	C
95	143	Sep 11	PIT	@	NYG	L,4-5	CG	32	8.0	5	0	1	6	0
96	144	Sep 12 (1)	PIT	@	BSN	W,8-1	CG	35	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
97	146 (1)	Sep 13	PIT	@	BSN	L,0-8	GF	13	2.2	3	0	0	3	0	C
98	148 (1)	Sep 14 (2)	PIT	@	PHI	L,1-2	CG	29	8.0	4	1	0	5	0	C
99	149	Sep 16	PIT	@	BRO	L,2-4	CG	31	8.0	4	0	0	4	0	C
100	150	Sep 17	PIT	@	BRO	W,4-1	CG	35	9.0	6	0	0	6	0	C
101	151	Sep 19	PIT		CIN	L,3-4	CG	34	9.0	4	0	0	4	0
102	152	Sep 21	PIT		CIN	L,3-4	CG	32	9.0	7	1	0	8	0
103	153	Sep 26	PIT	@	CIN	L,0-5	CG	36	8.0	1	1	0	2	0
104	154	Sep 27	PIT	@	CIN	W,9-6	CG	43	9.0	1	0	0	1	0
105	155	Sep 28	PIT	@	CIN	L,2-3	CG	41	8.2	7	3	1	11	0
							105gm		816.2	418	63	11	492	9