Caray, however, stated in his autobiography that he liked Johnny Keane as a manager, and didn't want to be involved in Keane's dismissal.

Caray also avoided any risk of mis-calling a home run, using what became a trademark home run call: " It might be.

" In Holy Cow !, Caray said he first used the " It might be ..." part of that expression on the air while covering a college baseball tournament in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in the early 1940s.

However, Caray never pretended to be the kind of objective announcer that such broadcasters as Red Barber and Vin Scully prided themselves on being regardless of their team attachments.

Speakers at the event included baseball commissioner Ford Frick, Cardinals broadcaster Harry Caray, and Cardinals owner Gussie Busch, who announced that Musial's uniform number " 6 " would be retired by the team.

In 2007, there was a major shake-up of the Braves broadcasters: Don Sutton departed to be the full-time broadcaster with the Washington Nationals, Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren went to the Braves Radio Network full time, and Joe Simpson signed with Fox Broadcasting Company to be a color analyst on FSN South and Sports South, and also signed to call a limited schedule of games on TBS with Chip.

On December 21, 2009, Fox Sports South and SportSouth announced that Chip Caray will be the play-by-play announcer for all 105 Braves games on the networks.

After the All-Star Break, Caray and Van Wieren were returned to the booth, only to be taken off permanently in 2007 with TBS hiring new broadcasters for their playoff coverage later in the year.

During this time, in 1968, he was almost hired to be the first broadcaster for the newly formed Atlanta Hawks of the NBA, only to lose out to Skip Caray.

Another Caray impersonation was done by Chicago radio personality Jim Volkman, heard most often on the Loop and AM1000.

Caray frequently mocked his participation in the film on-air, and referred to it as one of the worst movies ever made, often saying that the actors in the movie probably watched it as the in-flight movie on their way back to Los Angeles.

In the first scene, Rooney is looking for Ferris at a pizza joint while the voice of Harry Caray announces the action of a ballgame that is being shown on TV.

As discussed in Steve Stone's 1999 book, Where's Harry ?, Caray was at a Rancho Mirage restaurant on February 14, 1998, celebrating Valentine's Day with his wife Dutchie, when he collapsed, in the process allegedly hitting his head on the side of a restaurant table, and was rushed to nearby Eisenhower Medical Center.

Since 2002, God Bless America has been performed at all Major League Baseball All-Star Games and playoff games, often with a celebrity recording artist ( Take Me Out to the Ball Game is sometimes done afterward with a recording of the legend Harry Caray ), as well as Opening Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Patriot Day, and many post-season games.

In a September interview with Heidi Watney of the New England Sports Network, Johnny Bench, who was watching a Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park, did an impression of late Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray after Red Sox third baseman Kevin Youkilis, a native of Cincinnati, made a tough play.

It was during that season, that Cubs announcer Chip Caray nicknamed him " Slammin ' Sammy ," a nickname that quickly spread.

* Chicago Cubs announcer Harry Caray,

Caray increased his renown after joining the North Side Cubs following the 1981 season.

In contrast to the " SportsVision " concept, the Cubs ' own television outlet, WGN-TV, had become among the first of the cable television superstations, offering their programming to providers across the United States for free, and Caray became as famous nationwide as he had long been on the South Side and, previously, in St. Louis.

Caray succeeded longtime Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse, himself a beloved announcer and Chicago media fixture.

In February 1987 Caray suffered a stroke while at his winter home near Palm Springs, California, just prior to spring training for the Cubs ' 1987 season.

He had a particularly frosty relationship with Milo Hamilton, his first partner with the Cubs, who felt Caray had pushed him out in St. Louis in the mid-1950s.

Following his death, during the entire 1998 season the Cubs wore a patch on the sleeves of their uniforms depicting a caricature of Caray.

Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa dedicated each of his 66 home runs that season to Caray.

Caray's broadcasting legacy was extended to a third generation, as his grandson Chip Caray replaced Harry as the Cubs ' play-by-play announcer from 1998 to 2004.

In what Harry Caray said was one of his proudest moments, he worked some innings in the same broadcast booth with his son and grandson, during a Cubs / Braves game on May 13, 1991.

Ryan Dempster, Chicago Cubs pitcher, is known for his Harry Caray impression, most notably, he announced the Cubs ' starting lineup while speaking like the post-stroke version of Caray before a nationally televised baseball game on Fox Sports.

From – Carter served as the color commentator, alongside play-by-play man Chip Caray, for the Chicago Cubs on WGN-TV.

As Cubs ' radio announcer Harry Caray described it:

His last game at Wrigley Field on September 21, 1997 was also the last game during which Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray would perform " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " during the seventh-inning stretch, as Caray died the following offseason.

In 1998, Chip Caray was hired to work alongside his grandfather as broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs.

In 2004, both Caray and Stone left the Cubs booth after the season.

Kalas had sung " Take Me Out To The Ball Game " on several occasions during the seventh-inning stretch at Wrigley Field in Chicago on several occasions in tribute to Harry Caray, the late voice of the Chicago Cubs, who had led fans in that song at most home games.

Before he became an institution on the north side with the Cubs, Sox broadcaster Harry Caray was a south side icon.

Caray joined the Chicago White Sox in 1971 and quickly became popular with the South Side faithful and enjoying a reputation for joviality and public carousing ( sometimes doing home game broadcasts bare-chested from the bleachers ).

But in 1976, during a game against the Texas Rangers, Caray had former outfielder Jimmy Piersall ( who was working for the Rangers at the time ) as a guest in the White Sox booth that night.

This led to his absence from the broadcast booth through most of the first two months of the regular season, with WGN featuring a series of celebrity guest announcers on game telecasts while Caray recuperated.

Many of these performances began with Caray speaking directly to the baseball fans in attendance either about the state of the day's game, or the Chicago weather, while the park organ held the opening chord of the song.

Skip Caray and Pete van Wieren acknowledging fans at a game in 1983 Atlanta Braves season | 1983.

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.

In one celebrated instance, in order to get back at Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Ron Hudspeth for a critical column, Caray paid to have an airplane tow a banner above Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium during a Braves game which read, " For a good time, call Rona Hudspeth ," and included Ron's actual phone number.

In June 2000, Caray, along with fellow Braves broadcasters Joe Simpson, Pete Van Wieren and Don Sutton, was banned from Atlanta Braves team charter flights for several games after criticizing Braves catcher Javy López for being penalized for setting up outside the catchers box during a game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Caray also delivered the call for the Braves ' World Series win in 1995, as Mark Wohlers got Carlos Baerga to fly out to Marquis Grissom to end the game:

It was also reported that Mercker and left fielder Moisés Alou shouted at Stone on a team charter plane to a road game in 2004, and that Alou tried to have Stone and Caray banned from the team charter flights.

In contrast, his successor as Cubs announcer, Harry Caray, a radio broadcaster by training, tended to describe the game on TV as if he were doing a radio broadcast.

Various announcers have punctuated particularly exciting moments during a game with the exclamation " Holy ..." something: Harry Caray and Phil Rizzuto invoked " Holy cow!