Reddit mentions of Just Play Ball

via the azcentral obit:
> He and his childhood friend, Lawrence Peter “Yogi'' Berra, both went on to play in the major leagues. Yogi was a Hall of Famer with the New York Yankees and Joe played with four teams, the St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago Cubs and New York Giants.

> “Not only was I not the best catcher in the major leagues, I wasn't even the best catcher on my street,'' Garagiola said.

I really loved his book, Just Play Ball. Laugh-out-loud funny, with plenty of anecdotes I never read elsewhere.

Well, among other things, JoeG is a hall-of-fame announcer who spent most of his "visible" career behind a microphone -- and regularly calls games for the Arizona Diamondbacks. That makes him particularly notable to those of us in Phoenix; perhaps I assumed y'all were aware of him equally well, just as I assumed you'd recognize the name Vin Scully. Sorry about that.

And he's written quite a bit about baseball, such as Just Play Ball.

FWIW, he's also been best friends with Yogi Berra since they were 6 years old. He, too, was a catcher to begin with.