Harry Caray
Harry Caray, born Harry Christopher Carabina was an American sportscaster on radio and television. He covered four Major League Baseball teams, beginning withyears of calling the games of 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 playbyplay and studio work for NBC Sports.
Caray was born Harry Christopher Carabina to an Italian father and Romanian mother in St. Louis. He was an infant when his father died. His mother remarried with a FrenchAmerican, but after her death when Caray was eight, he went to live with his aunt Doxie at 1909 LaSalle Street in a tough, workingclass section of St. Louis. As a young man, Caray played baseball at the semipro level for a short time before auditioning for a radio job at the age of 19. He then spent a few years learning the trade at radio stations in Joliet, Illinois, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. While in Joliet, WCLS station manager Bob Holt suggested that Harry change his surname from Carabina to Caray. Caray did playbyplay for the St. Louis Hawks professional basketball team and the University of Missouri football team, and he announced three Cotton Bowl games. Caray was the uncle of actor Tim Dunigan known for playing many roles on both the screen and stage. His son Skip Caray followed him into the booth as a basebal
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