Joe Garagiola gets angry when he has to think about the human carnage his enemy has caused. He get teary-eyed when he sees what that foe is still doing. Garagiola’s enemy is tobacco. The smokeless variety. He calls it “spit tobacco,” and the words sound derisive coming from his mouth. A baseball broadcaster for four decades and a catcher for the 1946 St. Louis Cardinals team that won the World Series, Garagiola has been around his enemy for a good part of his life. . . . The place to attack the problem, it appears, is in Little League, not the major leagues. “Major-league baseball gets kind of a bad rap where tobacco is concerned,” Garagiola said. “By the time these guys get up there, they’ve been using the stuff for over 10 years, and they aren’t even 25.”
