Joe Gallagher's 50-year career in sports broadcasting includes producing championship baseball shows on radio and television from 1949 to 1999. Joe worked for the New York Yankees alongside legendary announcers Mel Allen & Red Barber; the New York Mets with Lindsey Nelson, Bob Murphy & Ralph Kiner; the CBS Sports Baseball Game of the Week with Dizzy Dean & Pee Wee Reese; and the NBC Sports Baseball Game of the Week with Curt Gowdy, Jim Simpson, and Tony Kubek. A native New Yorker now living in Austin, Texas, Joe celebrates his 93 years recalling the thrills of Mickey Mantle, Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron, Barry Bonds, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, and Bob Gibson plus many tales from the Golden Age of Sports Broadcasting with co-host Jim Wogan.
The Mets and Yankees are positioning themselves for Subway World Series. But is that a good thing? Former NBA media director Matt Winick, a keen observer of New York sports history and a former media executive for the Mets, joins Joe and Jim for a look ahead at the possibility of another Subway Series in baseball.
Joe Gallagher was there when NFL rose to power on network TV in the 1950s and 1960s. Hear more about his experiences on this NFL playoff edition of Instant Replay.
Joe discusses the career and legacy of Gil Hodges, who he knew from his days as a broadcast producer for the NY Mets and NBC Sports. Hodges will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2022.
The conversation covers the 2021 World Series and a few other dramatic moments in postseason baseball history-- including the 1951 NY Giants, and the 1957-58 Milwaukee Braves.
Award-winning baseball columnist John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle joins us to talk about his recent book on Willie Mays.
Say hey! Joe Gallagher and Jim Wogan take a look back at the career of Willie Mays and the release of a new book about one of the best players in baseball history.
A chance meeting with legendary boxing announcer Don Dunphy leads to a career that includes riding the rails with the NY Yankees in the 1940s and 1950s.
Joe Gallagher reflects on the 1941 Major League Baseball season which may go down as the best ever.
Former Cubs PR and publications director Bob Ibach joins Joe Gallagher and Jim Wogan to talk about Hall of Famer Ernie Banks.
Hall of Famer George Kell stacks up as one of the greatest 3rd basemen of all time, and his transition to a career in broadcasting started under the mentorship of veteran producer Joe Gallagher.
Legendary NBA guard and Hall of Fame player Walt Frazier joins Joe Gallagher and Jim Wogan for a look back at one of the most memorable games in NBA history-- Game 7 of the 1970 NBA Finals between the NY Knicks and Los Angeles Lakers.
Joe welcomes Bishop Richard F. Stika of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Knoxville to discuss his lifelong passion for the St. Louis Cardinals and his friendship with Stan "The Man" Musial.
Ralph Kiner was one of baseball's biggest stars in the 1940s and 1950s. After his playing career, Kiner became a fixture on NY Mets broadcasts for five decades and made Kiner's Korner must-see TV for fans. In this episode of Instant Replay, Joe Gallagher and his son John, both of whom worked with Ralph during their broadcasting careers, look back at a NY Mets and baseball legend.
Joe Gallagher remembers working alongside one of America's all-time great play-by-play announcers-- Lindsey Nelson, the original voice of the New York Mets. He could do it all: college football, the NFL, and much more. But making the Mets sound good in the early 1960s wasn't as easy as it looked, or sounded.
Joe Gallagher discusses working with two of the legends of baseball broadcasting, Mel Allen and Red Barber. We also discuss some of the modern play-by-play guys. Who do you think is (or was) the best?
One of the best nicknames in baseball should be reserved for one of the best pitchers in the history of the game. Bob Feller was many things, including a legitimate teenage phenom, a decorated WWII veteran, and he was known as Rapid Robert, the Heater from Van Meter, Iowa.
Two of the greatest pitchers in baseball history pass away within 6 days of each other. In this episode, how Hall of Famers Whitey Ford and Bob Gibson dominated the 1950s and 1960s with their own distinct styles of pitching.
Allie Reynolds threw two no-hitters in a single season and was one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball at the time. Joe Gallagher remembers the brilliance of a player who he believes should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Tom Seaver and Gil Hodges transformed the Mets from being lovable losers to World Series champions. Matt Winick was an eyewitness to some of the greatest games, and one of the biggest upsets, in World Series history. He joins Joe Gallagher and Jim Wogan on this episode of Instant Replay.
A phone call to his college newspaper office leads to a job with the New York Yankees. Stories about Don Dunphy, Mel Allen, Casey Stengel, Billy Martin, and Joe DiMaggio in this episode of Instant Replay.
With George Kell moving to Detroit, and legendary play-by-play announcer Dizzy Dean not in the mix, CBS had to come up with a new way to present its pregame show on the Game of the Week during the 1959 season.
Joe went to his first game at Yankee Stadium in 1937. A year later, he saw Gehrig hit three triples and Pearson throw a no-hitter in a doubleheader against Cleveland on Aug. 27, 1938.
The Mets face an unhittable Sandy Koufax on a June visit to Los Angeles and Joe tracks down Danny Kaye and Nat King Cole for appearances in the booth with Lindsey Nelson.
How Joe Gallagher landed in the broadcast booth with baseball's worst, yet most likable team.
Joe and Micky Mantle share common ground. They were both rookies in 1951. Joe remembers Mantle's career from his view in the broadcast booth.
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