St. Louis Hometown Stories: Joe Garagiola, Former Cards Catcher

“Every room we had in that house had somebody sleeping in it,” Garagiola recalls of his childhood home. “Yogi [Berra] lived right across the street, and our brothers worked as waiters at Ruggeri’s and came home late. I remember those winter nights when it was kind of cold, and you had your side of the bed all warmed up and your brother came home from working. You’d be sleeping, and he’d push you to the cold side. That woke you up… The whole Hill was built on what I wish this country was doing now: helping one another.”