Harry Caray
Harry Caray
Harry Caray, born Harry Christopher Carabinawas an American sportscaster on radio and television. He covered four Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the games of the the St. Louis Cardinals . After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and eleven years with the Chicago White Sox, Caray spent the last sixteen years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs. He has won multiple Emmy Awards for baseball play-by-play and studio work for...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSportscaster
Date of Birth1 March 1914
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal.
I would lose my people ? cab drivers, bartenders and others, ... who can't afford cable TV.
It's the fans that need spring training. You gotta get 'em interested. Wake 'em up and let 'em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.
It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
Now, he gives me a hug. I see his hands and arms with all these marks and tattoos. I'm thinking, 'I'm hugging the anti-Christ.' But then he said, 'Sharon and I thank you. We had a great time.' And he walked up to everyone in the TV booth, everyone on the crew and said, 'Thank you, I really had a great time.' I'd never seen anybody do that before.
Hello again, everybody. It's a bee-yooo-tiful day for baseball.
My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.
They (Expos fans) discovered 'boo' is pronounced the same in French as it is in English.
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
You could tell he (President Ronald Reagan) was an old radio guy. He never once looked at the television monitor.
I know it is the fans that are responsible for me being here. I've always tried in each and every broadcast to serve the fans to the best of my ability.
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?
Oh, I get a little tired now and then, but knowing my lifestyle, that's only natural.