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Riverdale, NY - The 39th annual Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place on Saturday, November 11. Eight individuals, two teams and one legacy inductee will be honored. Leading up to the induction, all members of Class of 2017 will be profiled on
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Joseph C. Gallagher
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The architect of the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame, Joseph C. Gallagher will take his place alongside the many great student-athletes he helped promote.
A graduate of the prep school and later the College, Gallagher has lived his life according to the ideals of the Lasallian mission. During the 1950s, he was active in fundraising for Manhattan legend and Athletic Hall of Famer Junius Kellogg following a car accident that left him paralyzed.
The sports editor for the Quadrangle as a junior and the editor of the paper as a senior, his work at Manhattan launched Gallagher into a long, distinguished career in the television sports business. Gallagher worked for many of the leading sports teams and networks, including the Yankees, Mets, CBS Sports, NBC Sports and ABC Sports, highlighted by winning an Emmy Award for his work on the 1984 Summer Olympics in LA.
Gallagher started with the Yankees as a statistician for Mel Allen in 1951 on the same day as Mickey Mantle and Bob Shepard before working with the networks for their telecasts of the "Game of the Weeks" in both professional and college sports.
He then served as the inaugural producer of New York Met broadcasts on WOR from 1962-1966 alongside Lindsey Nelson, Ralph Kiner and Bob Murphy before producing games for NBC Sports.
One of the forerunners for arranging the broadcast of college basketball, Gallagher helped oversaw the production of Manhattan's basketball game with South Carolina in 1974 while arranging for Brother Leo to be the featured halftime guest.
He then branched off into college athletics, serving as an Assistant Athletic Director at Syracuse University where he helped arrange the building of the Carrier Dome in 1980.
After his aforementioned work with the Olympic effort in LA, he served as the PR director for the Pittsburgh Pirates and helped to secure Spanish radio rights for the now defunct Houston Oilers before concluding his distinguished career with the Double-A Knoxville Smokies in the early 2000s.
For his long distinguished service to the Athletic Program and the many fine student-athletes, he is proudly welcomed into the Manhattan College Athletic Hall of Fame.
