Joseph Henry Garagiola Jr. (born August 6, 1950) is currently the Special Advisor to

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President & CEO

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and formerly the Senior Vice President of Standards and On-field Operations for

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. He was previously Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations for MLB from 2005 to 2011 and the

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of the Arizona Diamondbacks from 1997 to 2005. He is the son of Joe Garagiola Sr., who played

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for the St. Louis Cardinals and

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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, 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, the

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and

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.Interview with Garagiola
mlb.com; accessed September 13, 2015.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Garagiola, Joe Jr. 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