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Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray Jr. (August 12, 1939 – August 3, 2008) was an American sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television
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announcer for the
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of
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. He was the son of baseball announcer
Harry Caray Harry Christopher Caray (; March 1, 1914 – February 18, 1998) was an American radio and television Sports commentator, sportscaster. During his career he called the play-by-play for five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of ...
, and the father of
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play-by-play announcer and former fellow Braves broadcaster
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; another son, Josh Caray, is the play-by-play announcer for the minor league
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.


Early life and education

Skip Caray grew up in baseball as the son of
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broadcaster Harry Caray, who would routinely refer to his son at 8:30 p.m. during every broadcast by saying, "Good night, Skippy", a phrase for which the younger Caray was teased throughout his adolescence. He studied television and radio at the
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where he received a degree in journalism, and was a member of
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. He began his career in St. Louis calling
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and
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basketball games. In 1968, Caray moved with the Hawks to Atlanta, where he also called
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hockey games and did morning sportscasts on
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.


Career


Atlanta Braves

In
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, Caray was added to the broadcast team for the Braves, a position he held until his death. In September 2007, he was not asked to announce
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games on TBS, and was kept exclusive to the Braves as the team's broadcasts moved to local Atlanta station
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(Peachtree TV, a direct descendant of the original WTBS). Caray felt slighted by the move. Perhaps Caray's most memorable call was his description of Francisco Cabrera's game-winning hit in Game 7 of the
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against the
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. The game itself was ultimately decided on Braves first-baseman
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beating out Pirates left-fielder
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' throw to home plate. Three years later, the
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defeated the
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in Game 6 of the
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to earn the city of
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its first major professional sports championship. Caray called
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catching the final out in center field. According to ''
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,'' Caray's calls of the 1992 pennant win and 1995 World Series win were "the two most iconic calls" in Braves history. Caray was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame in
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alongside long-time Braves broadcaster
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. He has been recognized with six Georgia Sportscaster-of-the Year awards from the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association, as well as a Georgia-area Emmy award. On December 18, 2006, the Braves organization announced that Caray (and partner Van Wieren) had signed three-year contracts to continue doing Braves game broadcasts on their radio network. However, Caray only announced ten games on TBS in the 2007 season before being relegated to Peachtree TV. On the final broadcast of ''
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'' (September 30, 2007), Caray thanked fans saying, "To all you people who have watched the Braves for these 30 years ... thank you. We appreciate you more than you will ever know. ... Thank you folks and God bless you. And we're going to miss you every bit as much as you miss us."


NBC Sports

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,
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hired Caray to do play-by-play with
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on the AL Division Series between the
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and
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. Caray was filling in for
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, who sat out the Division Series after anchoring
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's
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coverage of the
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from
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,
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.


Other appearances

On December 11, 1982, Caray along with
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called the much hyped college basketball contest between
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and Georgetown (led by
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and
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respectively) for TBS. Caray also called play-by-play for the first two seasons (1990–91) of the
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network's Sunday night NFL coverage as well as TBS' coverage of the
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and
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, and anchored TBS' coverage of the 1990
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. He made his motion picture debut in the 1985 movie ''
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'', starring
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,
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and
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. Caray frequently mocked his participation in the film on-air and referred to it as one of the
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, often saying that the actors in the movie probably watched it as the in-flight movie on their way back to Los Angeles. Caray was also the lead play-by-play man for
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's (a joint venture of
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and
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respectively) regional coverage of Braves games during that ill-fated experiment's two seasons (
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and
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) usually alongside the opposing team's secondary play-by-play man or color commentator.


Broadcasting style

Caray's broadcasts were characterized by his witty and
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sense of humor, a personality trait that endeared him to most fans, but alienated him from some. For example, during a particularly long losing streak in the 1980s, Caray declared at the start of a game against the
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, "And, like lambs to the slaughter, the Braves take the field". Other frequent targets of Caray's jokes included the
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'
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,
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fans, professional wrestling, The Wave, TBS baseball broadcast producer Glenn Diamond, and the post game
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frequently shown on TBS during the 1980s. In one instance, in order to get back at ''
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'' columnist Ron Hudspeth for a critical column, Caray paid to have an airplane tow a banner above
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during a Braves game which read, "For a good time, call Rona Hudspeth", and included Ron's actual phone number. Among other memorable lines, Caray said of Braves pitcher
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, who was 6'4" and 245 lbs., "Boy, he is big enough to go to work." And during a losing streak, after talking about a promotion in which Braves fans could come on the field and meet the players, Caray commented, "The way things are going, we may make the fans go through a metal detector on the way to the field." Caray was also known for his tendency to identify the hometowns of fans who catch foul balls during Braves games in jest. Fans who reside in the metro Atlanta area were identified by a random suburb, though there was no legitimacy behind these references. Similarly, when daytime home games went long, Caray would routinely give a "traffic report" at exactly 5 o'clock on radio broadcasts. It consisted of his rattling off a random list of major Atlanta arteries, and describing each one as hopelessly backed up. When the Braves suffered a severely bad outing, and the score was strongly lopsided in favor of the other team, in late innings he would often tell fans "It's OK to walk the dog now, folks, if you promise to support our sponsors." In addition to his play-by-play duties, Caray also hosted a pre-game call in show on WSB until 2004.


Criticism

In June 2000, Caray, along with fellow Braves broadcasters Joe Simpson, Pete Van Wieren and
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, were banned from Atlanta Braves team charter flights for several games after criticizing
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catcher
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for being penalized for setting up outside the catchers box during a game against the
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. In an attempt to combat criticism of Caray's on-air "home team" bias and to market its baseball coverage to non-Braves fans, during the 2003 season, TBS removed him and Pete Van Wieren from announcing Braves games on television. The move was strongly criticized by Braves fans, the local Atlanta media, and Braves manager
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. Over 90% of Braves fans who voted in an online poll conducted by the ''
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'' preferred Caray and Van Wieren to the more neutral broadcasts. The move backfired, and ratings for the TBS broadcasts declined sharply. After the All-Star Break, Caray and Van Wieren were returned to the booth. They were taken off permanently in
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with TBS hiring new broadcasters for their playoff coverage later in the year.


Death

On August 3, 2008, the Atlanta Braves announced that Caray had died at the age of 68. His wife, Paula, reported to ''
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'' that on Sunday afternoon when she thought her husband was napping, she looked out the window and saw a bird feeder not hanging where it should be and thought it had been blown down by the wind. When she stood up, she noticed her husband lying on the ground next to the bird feeder. He had been suffering from failing health for nearly a year prior, but returned to work for the 2008 season, calling a game on radio as recently as three days before his death. Tributes to Caray were given on all of the Atlanta television stations that evening and on WGST-AM the next morning.11alive.com (WXIA-TV) announcement of Caray's death.
– accessed August 4, 2008. Shortly after Caray's death, the Atlanta Braves began wearing a memorial patch on their uniforms that read "SKIP", which appeared on the sleeve opposite the "BEACH" patch honoring
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that they had been wearing since the beginning of the 2008 season.


References


External links


Skip Caray Online Memorial


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