Harry Caray (born Harry Christopher Carabina ; March 1, 1914 - February 18, 1998) is an American sports broadcaster on radio and television. He covered five Major League Baseball teams, starting with 25 years of calling the games from St. Louis Cardinals with these two years also spent game calling for St. Louis Browns. After a year working for Oakland Athletics and eleven years with the Chicago White Sox, Caray spent the last sixteen years of his career as a Chicago Cubs broadcaster.
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Caray was born Harry Christopher Carabina to Italian father and Romanian mother at St. Louis. She was a baby when her father died. Her mother remarried to a French-American, but after her death when Caray was eight years old, she lived with her aunt Doxie in 1909 LaSalle Street in a hard working section of St. Louis. Louis. As a young man, Caray played baseball at the semi-pro level for a short time before auditioning for radio work at the age of 19. He then spent several years studying trade at radio stations in Joliet, Illinois, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. While at Joliet, WCLS station manager Bob Holt suggested that Harry change his family name from Carabina (because according to Holt, it sounds too awkward in the air) to Caray. Caray playing games for the professional basketball team. Louis Hawks (now Atlanta Hawks) and the University of Missouri football team, and he announced three Cotton Bowl games.
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Careers
Louis Cardinals/St. Louis Browns
Caray caught his break when he got the job with the Cardinals in 1945 and, according to some franchise histories, proved to be an expert in selling beer sponsors when he had sold Cardinals at KMOX. Immediately before Cardinal's work, Caray announces a hockey game for St. Louis Flyers. Caray announced with Ralph Bouncer Taylor, a former NHL player. On one occasion, Taylor temporarily ended his retirement when he volunteered to play the goalkeeper for the Flyers in a regular season game with a team from Minnesota. (Caray and Gabby Street's broadcast partners are also called games for St. Louis Browns in 1945-1946.) Caray is also considered influential enough that he can influence the movement of team personnel; Cardinals historian Peter Golenbock (in the spirit of St. Louis: A History of the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns) has suggested Caray may have a partial hand in maneuver that leads to the general exit of managers Bing Devine, has assembled the team that won the 1964 World Series, and field manager Johnny Keane, whose replacement is rumored, Leo Durocher (succession did not go well), is believed to have been supported by Caray for the job. Caray, however, states in his autobiography that he likes Johnny Keane as manager, and does not want to get involved in Keane's dismissal. As a Cardinals broadcaster, Caray broadcast three World Series (1964, 1967, and 1968) on NBC.
In November 1968, Caray was almost killed after being hit by a car while crossing the streets of St. Louis. Louis; he suffered two leg fractures in the accident but recovered in time to return to the broadcast booth for the start of the 1969 season. Cardinals president Gussie Busch, then CEO of Anheuser-Busch owner, spent a fortune to make sure Caray recovered, flying it on a company plane to a facility companies in Florida to rehabilitate and recuperate. On the Opening Day, fans cheered as he dramatically threw away the two sticks he used to cross the field and continue into the broadcast booths under his own control.
After the 1969 season, the Cardinals refused to renew Caray's contract after he called their game for 25 years, his longest tenure with any sports team. The team stated that action had been taken on the recommendation of Anheuser-Busch's marketing department, but gave no details. At a press conference afterward, where he drank conspicuously from a can of Schlitz, at that time Anheuser-Busch's main competitor Caray dismissed the claim, saying there was no one better selling beer than before. Instead, he suggested, he became the victim of a rumor that he was having an affair with Gussie Busch's son-in-law.
Oakland Athletics
He spent a season broadcasting for Athletics, in 1970, before, as he often said to the interviewer, he was bored with the annoyance of owner Charles O. Finley and accepted the job with the Chicago White Sox. (Apparently the feelings were in favor of each other, Finley then said "Caray) pulled in St. Louis does not go here.") Finley wants Caray to change his singing from "Holy Cow" to "Holy Mule."
However, there are several reports that Caray and Finley do, in fact, work well with each other and that Caray's tense relationship with A comes from an old A Monte Moore broadcaster; Caray is loose and wheel free while Moore is more restrained and calm.
Chicago White Sox
Caray joined the Chicago White Sox in 1971 and quickly became popular with a loyal South Side resident and enjoyed a reputation for seriousness and public festivities (sometimes broadcasting home games naked from the stands). He is not always popular with players, however; Caray has an equal reputation for being critical of the home team's mistakes. During his tenure with the White Sox, Caray teamed up with many color analysts who did not work well, including Bob Waller, Bill Mercer and former Major League captain J. C Martin, among others. But in 1976, during a game against Texas Rangers, Caray had former outfielder Jimmy Piersall (who worked for Rangers at the time) as a guest at the White Sox booth that night. Tandem proved to work so well that Piersall was hired to become Caray's partner at the White Sox radio and TV booth starting in 1977. Piersall and Caray became very popular.
Among Caray's experiences during his time with the White Sox was the famous "Disco Demolition Night" promotion. On July 12, 1979, what started as a promotional effort by the Chicago WLUP radio station, the popular DJ DJ Dahl, and Sox to sell seats in the White Sox/Detroit Tigers double-header produced disaster. When Dahl exploded the crates full of disco notes on the field after the first game ended, thousands of rowdy fans from the sold-out show flowed from the stands to the field at Comiskey Park. Caray and Piersall, through the public address system, tried to calm the crowd and begged them to return to their seats, in vain. Eventually the field was cleared by the Chicago Police with anti-riot equipment and the White Sox was forced to cancel the second match of a double header due to extensive damage done on the playing field. Caray left the White Sox after the 1981 season, replaced by Don Drysdale. However, the popular Caray was soon hired by Crosstown Cubs for the 1982 season.
Chicago Cubs
Caray improved its reputation after joining the North Side Cubs after the 1981 season. Unlike the "SportsVision" concept, the Cubs family television channel, WGN-TV, has become one of the first superstitions of cable television, offering their programs to providers across America United for free, and Caray became famous throughout the country as he had long been on the South Side and, earlier, at St. Louis. In fact, Caray had been affiliated with WGN for several years at the time, as WGN actually produced the White Sox game to broadcast on WSNS-TV rivals, and Caray often became a sports announcer at station news stations. Caray succeeds long Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse, a respected broadcaster and Chicago media supplies.
His time worked in Caray's favor, when the Cubs finally won the Eastern League National League title in 1984 with the following WGN-TV national audience. Millions of people came to love Caray, who swung the microphone, continued his White Sox practice leading the crowd at home in singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh pering stretch, mimicking his behavior, his raspy voice, his habit of mispronouncing or slurring some players' names - which some players mimic in turn - and even his glass-shaped, wide-framed goblets, prescribed for him by Dr. Cyril Nierman, OD
In February 1987, Caray suffered a stroke while at her winter home near Palm Springs, California, shortly before the spring training for the 1987 season in Cuba. This led to his absence from the broadcast booth through most of the first two months of the regular season, with WGN showing a series of celebrity guest announcers on the broadcast while Caray recovered.
Caray's national popularity was never marked thereafter, although the time finally took her to him. Nicknamed "The Mayor of Rush Street," a reference to the renowned neighborhood of Chicago, which is dominated by Beverage and Caray's famous taste for Budweiser, illness and age began to deplete some of Caray's skills, even though he experienced a tremendous recovery from a stroke in 1987. There were occasional calls for him retired, but he remains above the normal WGN mandatory retirement period, an indication of how popular he is. Toward the end of his career, Caray's schedule was limited to home games and travel to St. Louis and Milwaukee.
In December 1997, Caray's granddaughter, Chip Caray, was hired to share play-to-play duties for WGN Cubs broadcast with Caray for the following season. However, Harry Caray died in February 1998, before the baseball season begins, leaving the grandchildren's expected partnership at the broadcast stand yet to be realized.
The seven-inning span
Seventh of Caray's seventh inning single from "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" begins during his tenure with the White Sox. The team owner, Bill Veeck noticed that the announcer likes to hum the song with Comischey Park's organist Nancy Faust. Veeck asks Caray if he can give her a microphone so she can sing for the whole park, but the broadcaster does not want a part of it. Veeck counseled Caray that she had recorded the singer during the commercial break and said she could play the tape if Caray was liked. Instead, Caray agreed to sing it live, accompanied by Faust in the organ, and then became famous for singing the song, continuing to do it at Wrigley Field after becoming a Chicago Cubs broadcaster during the seventh stretch, using a handheld microphone and holding it outside the cubicle window.
Many of these performances begin with Caray speaking directly to baseball fans who attend either about the state of the day's game, or the Chicago weather, while the park organ holds the key to the opening of the song. Then with his typical opening, "Okay, listen to Ah-One Ah-Two Ah-Three!" Harry will launch his trademark, down-tempo version of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame". During his tenure announcing games at Comiskey Park and then Wrigley Field, he often replaced "root, root, root for the home team" with "root, root, root for White Sox/Cubbies". For the lyrics "One, Two, Three, attack you out..." Harry would usually hold the microphone to the crowd to signal the end of the song. And if the visitors are ahead of the game, Harry will usually plead the home team's attack: "Let's run!"
The seven-inning stretch routine becomes Caray's most remembered trademark; After his death, the Cubs family began to practice inviting guest, local and national celebrities, to lead Caray's singing style. The use of "guest conductor" continues to this day. Since installing a jumbotron screen inside Wrigley Field in 2015, the Cubs periodically display a Caray video recording that sings "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" as fans sing along.
During the 2009 NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field, when the Chicago Blackhawks hosted the Detroit Red Wings on New Year's Day 2009, former Blackhawks players Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita and Denis Savard and former Cubs Ryne Sandberg and Ferguson Jenkins sang hockey-versions themed from the seventh-inning stretch; "Take Me Out to the Hockey Game" uses lines like "Root, root, root for Blackhawks" and "One, two, three pucks, you're out." Blackhawks will do this again in 2010 during the White Sox - Cubs match at Wrigley Field. This time, it is a member of the team winning the Stanley Cup.
Personality and style
Caray has several broadcasters and co-workers for many years. He has a cold relationship with Milo Hamilton, his first partner with the Cubs, who feels Caray has pushed him out at St. Louis in the mid-1950s. Hamilton (who had been the alleged successor to Jack Brickhouse before hiring Caray) was fired by WGN in 1984; he claims that the station officer told him that the main reason was that Caray did not like him. However, Caray is also no shortage of broadcast friends who enjoy his work and friendship. With the White Sox, his longest partner is Jimmy Piersall; with the Cubs, he worked together for 14 years with former pitcher Steve Stone.
Caray is known for his absolute support from the team he announced. While advertisers play their habits openly supporting the Cubs from the booth (for example, the Budweiser ad of the 1980s describes it as "Fan Cub, Bud Man" in the "Soul Man" Blues Brothers parody), he has been even less restrained about rooting for Cardinals when he broadcast for them. She said later that her dismissal from the Cardinals changed her outlook and made her realize that her passion was for the game itself, and the fans, more than anything else. He is also famous for his slogan that often exclaims "Holy Cow!" when his team is doing a home run or changing difficult games on the pitch; he trained himself to use this expression to avoid the possibility of accidentally using dirty words in the air. Caray also avoided the risk of mistaking a home run, using what became a trademarked home phone call: "Maybe... it can be... that! Run home! Holy cow!" He first used "It may be..." part of that phrase in the air while covering college baseball tournaments in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the early 1940s.
Caray was attracted by unusual names, and one of his frequent on-air sounds was trying to pronounce the multi-syllable name back. This bit became more challenging for him after the 1987 stroke, but he kept trying and laughing at his often failing efforts. Once, when Manny Mota had just approached a Cardinals producer who did not even need to move his legs to catch, Harry declared: "'Mota' is spelled backwards 'atomic'... and that's where he hit it, right on the 'im'!"
Caray has a reputation for mastering all aspects of broadcasting: writing his own copy, conducting news interviews, writing and presenting editorials, including other sports such as University of Missouri soccer, and organizing sports chat programs.
Non-baseball work
Although best known and respected for baseball work, Caray is also called football (football Missouri Tigers), ice hockey (St. Louis Flyers), basketball (St. Louis Billikens, Boston Celtics and St. Louis Hawks) in 1940, 50 -an and '60s. In addition, he broadcasted eight games Cotton Bowl Classic (1958-64, 1966) on the radio network.
Personal life
Caray is the uncle of actor Tim Dunigan who is known for playing many roles on the screen and on stage. His son Skip Caray followed him to the booth as a baseball announcer with the Atlanta Braves. Caray's broadcasting heritage expanded into the third generation, when his grandson Chip Caray replaced Harry as a Cubs play-by-child broadcaster from 1998 to 2004. Chip currently serves as a television broadcaster Braves on FOX Sports South.
On October 23, 1987, Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse opened at the Chicago Varnish Company Building, a Chicago Landmark building that is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are seven restaurants and off-premises catering divisions that bear the name of Harry Caray.
Rumor of affair with Susan Busch
Rumors that Caray was having an affair with Susan Busch, wife of August Busch III, the eldest son of Cardinals president Gussie Busch, then a company executive and then CEO of Cardinals' owner Anheuser-Busch, began circulating after he was involved in a single car accident near his home on the outskirts of St Louis at Ladue one night in May 1968. He told the police that he was returning from a visit to "a friend"; the cause of the accident was never publicly disclosed and no further action was taken. However, his marriage to the younger Busch failed because of his extreme commitment to the family business.
According to the historian Anheuser-Busch, William Knoedelseder, the two are seen eating together at Tony's, St. Louis is popular and respected (where Knoedelseder then works, and hears stories from more senior staff). The attendant said they were both very drunk and openly affectionate. They stand out not only because they are both well known around St. Louis but because Caray is 22 years older than him. The owner of the restaurant should tell the staff not to stare at the couple.
It is also rumored that the near-fatal car accidents Caray ends of the year are actually deliberate and linked to alleged infidelity. Private investigators working for Busch have found that phone records show that Caray and Susan Busch have made many calls to each other. They allegedly confronted him about the affairs reported while he was in Florida recovering.
Susan divorced her husband shortly after. He's just talking about alleged infidelity ever since, denying it. While he and the broadcaster are friends, "we are not romantic in any way", he told St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Caray cites rumors of an affair as the real reason the Cardinals refused to renew his contract after a disappointing 1969 season.
Like Susan Busch, Caray, also denied that infidelity had taken place when asked, but according to Knoedelseder is less consistent, it sometimes shows it did happen, and usually says how flattered it is to the idea that a woman as attractive as Susan Busch will see it in the same way.
Death
Caray maintains a winter home in Palm Springs, California, along with his main residence in Chicago. As discussed in Steve Stone's 1999 book, Where's Harry? Caray was at the Rancho Mirage restaurant on February 14, 1998, celebrating Valentine's Day with his wife Dutchie, when he collapsed, in the process of allegedly hitting his head on the side of the restaurant table, and was rushed to the nearest Eisenhower Medical Center. He never realized. He suffered a heart attack, with the resulting brain damage, and died four days later. Caray's funeral took place in Chicago's Holy Cathedral Cathedral in the city center on February 27, two days before he was 84 years old. Many celebrities and athletes are present, including Sammy Sosa and former Chicago Bears head coach Mike Ditka. Legacy
At his funeral, the organ played "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." Harry Caray's body is buried at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois.
After his death, during the 1998 season the entire Cubs wore patches on their uniform sleeves depicting Caray's caricature. Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa dedicates each of his 66 home runs that season to Caray.
Caray has five children, three with his first wife, Dorothy, and two with his second wife, Marian. He married his third wife Delores "Dutchie" (Goldmann) on May 19, 1975. His son Skip Caray followed him to the booth as a baseball announcer with the Atlanta Braves until his death on August 3, 2008. Caray's broadcasting legacy expanded into the third generation, when his grandson, Chip Caray replaced Harry as a Cubs play-by-play broadcaster from 1998 to 2004. Chip then returned to work with his father, Skip on the Atlanta Braves broadcast, where he worked for a while in the early 1990s.
In what Harry Caray said was one of his proudest moments, he worked several innings in the same broadcast chamber with his son and grandchild, during the Cubs/Braves match on May 13, 1991. In professional settings, the younger man would refer to the senior them by their first names. During 1998, Chip will refer to Harry who has died as a third person as "Grandfather".
When the Cubs defeated Indian Cleveland in seven games to win the 2016 World Series, Budweiser produced a celebration advertisement entitled "The Last Call of Caray Caray" which featured Caray game calls using archived footage.
Awards and special events
The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association named Caray as Missouri Sportscaster of the Year twice (1959, 1960) and Illinois Sportscaster of the Year 10 times (1971-73, 75-78, 83-85), and inducted it into the NSSA Hall of Fame in 1988.
On June 24, 1994, the Chicago Cubs had a special day honoring Harry for 50 years of broadcasting Major League Baseball. Sponsored by Cubs and Kemper Insurance, the pin was awarded to a number of unknown fans who were present that day. The pins are illustrated by Harry, with the inscription "HARRY CARAY, 50 YEARS BROADCASTING, Kemper MUTUAL DANA" and "HOLY COW."
In 1994, Caray was a radio pioneer to the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame.
The Caray style became a food for pop culture parodies as well, including an unforgettable sketch of Saturday Night Live featuring Caray (played by Will Ferrell) in various segments of the Weekend Update across from Norm Macdonald and Colin Quinn. Caray often abandoned the topic he was supposed to be talking about and would float to a hypothetical topic such as whether they would eat the moon if it was made of ribs and turned the hot dog into a currency (20 hot dogs equivalent to about a nickel) depending on the strength of the yen). The sketch continued after Caray's death. When asked by Norm Macdonald about his death, Will Ferrell as Caray replied, "What's the use of you?" The Bob and Tom Show also had a Harry Caray parody show called "After Hours Sports" , which eventually became "Afterlife Sports" > after Caray's death, and the Baseball and Heaven Baseball Games, where Caray is the broadcaster for the game. In the Nickelodeon series Back at Barnyard Hilly Burford news reporter has a strong resemblance to Caray, both in appearance and in speech. In 2005, the cartoon Codename: Kids Next Door had two broadcasters reporting baseball games. One of them is a parody of Caray, the other, Howard Cosell. Caray's other impersonation is done by Chicago radio personality Jim Volkman, most commonly heard on the Loop and AM1000. Also, comedian Artie Lange, in his standup, speaks of Caray.
Caray can be heard briefly in the 1986 film Ferris Bueller Day Off , as the Cubs game is shown on TV in the pizza parlor.
In 2008, a series of Chicago TV and radio ads for sophisticated AT & amp; T featured comedian John Caponera who mimics the post-stroke version of Harry Caray. However, AT & amp; T immediately withdrew those places after widespread criticism and complaints by Caray's widow.
Jeff Lawrence is known for his Harry Caray impression, in particular, he announced his early Cubs lineup when speaking like a post-stroke Caray version before a nationally televised baseball game on Fox Sports. Jeff led the stadium in singing 'Take Me Out To The Ballgame' in July 2016, dressed up as Caray, including large glasses and wigs.
Atlanta Braves pitcher Will Ohman featured an impersonation of Harry Caray when announcing an early lineup for Atlanta Braves during the game of Fox of the Week in 2008.
In 1988, Vess Beverage Inc. releasing and selling Harry Caray's signature soda, under the brand "Holy Cow", complete with a picture of each tin.
References
External links
- Harry Caray Restaurant website
- Baseball Hall of Fame - Frick Awardee
- Hello More Everyone , documentary Harry Caray
- Harry Caray in Discovering the Mausoleum
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