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...repair it. Out went Dick Ebersol, senior executive in charge of the show, who had picked Norville and who graciously, if inescapably, took the blame for the decline that followed. (Ebersol remains head of NBC Sports.) On June 4, in will come a third host, the amiable Joe Garagiola, a onetime catcher for the St. Louis Cardinals who was one of the show's stalwarts from 1969 to 1973. "It's incredible that I could come back," says Garagiola, 64, who was dropped as NBC's weekend baseball commentator in 1988 and who seemed as astonished as everyone else that...
...ratings calamity. "She's not on the way out," insists Today's executive producer, Tom Capra. "The ratings have slid because Jane left the show, not because of Deborah. Deborah's a solid journalist, and I believe the audience will like her as they are exposed to her." Garagiola, Capra maintains, will "bring out what is really going on with her." So it seems that one host has been hired to persuade viewers to cozy up to another...
...particularly no one at NBC, seems to know exactly how to turn Today around. But there is a fellow in Florida who saved the show from a ratings disaster once, in 1953, and he is willing to try again. Like Garagiola, he is not a flat-belly, perfect-teeth kind of guy; but, at 38, J. Fred Muggs, the world's most famous chimpanzee, remains a crowd pleaser. "People like him because he's unpredictable and natural," says his trainer, Bud Mennella. "That show needs a spark, and Muggs has it." One thing is for certain: he couldn't hurt...
...just lost interest. While most of my high school friends went crazy when Italy won the World Cup, I was watching Joe Garagiola on the NBC "Game of the Week...
...fascinating observation Angell gleans from Joe Garagiola, a former catcher himself, in this chapter is that Johnny Bench, without a doubt the greatest catcher of his time, probably set back the art of catching, on account of his own great skills. Only Bench, with his extraordinarily quick release and balance, Angell's argument goes, could get away with catching the pitch one-handed, which normally catchers are taught not to do so that their throwing hand is on the ball if a Rickey Henderson or Vince Coleman tries for second base...