He wasn't a permanent host of "Concentration." "Memory Game" was a Merv Griffin format where the five contestants were given between them all of the questions and answers at the beginning of the show and Joe tried to find out how much they had remembered (or if they could answer the questions without being given the answers).
Mark Jeffries Saints Spotlight Editor [email protected] On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:50 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:43 AM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, I also thought "He's still on the air?" He'd been doing analysis on >> Arizona Diamondbacks broadcasts since 1998. >> >> It's really amazing when you think of all the stuff he's done *besides* >> baseball (when the voices you grew up on for baseball was Ernie Harwell and >> Paul Carey on the radio and Vin Scully and Gargiola on TV, it just reminds >> you how crappy most of the teams are now). The most stunning thing in the >> Reuters article: he was a *host* of Today in 1990-92 (with Bryant Gumbel >> and Deborah Norville). >> >> His son, Steve, still does mornings on WDIV (NBC) in Detroit. >> >> >> http://news.yahoo.com/baseball-broadcasting-veteran-joe-garagiola-retires-87-070748669--mlb.html >> > > I actually was never a huge fan of Joe G as a color analyst. I remember > growing impatient with all of his Yogi stories. But I do seem to remember > watching Joe host a version of Concentration - am I misremembering that? It > is not mentioned in the piece, but they do mention a game show called: "Joe > Garagiola's Memory Game". > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
