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Biography

Skip Caray

Overview

  • Born
    August 12, 1939 · St. Louis, Missouri, USA
  • Died
    August 3, 2008 · Atlanta, Georgia, USA (complications from diabetes)
  • Birth name
    Harry Christopher Caray Jr.

Biography

  • Skip Caray was a one of the Atlanta Braves baseball broadcast announcers. He was the son of the legendary Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, and and former St Louis Cardinals broadcaster, Harry Caray. Skip Caray worked for the Atlanta Braves broadcasting crew from 1976 to through September 2007.

    Skip's son Chip, followed his father's and grandfather's footsteps into baseball announcing over the radio, and during game between the Braves and the Cubs in 1994, all three of the Careys became the first grandfather-son-grandson trio to announce the same major league game. Skip was at the radio microphone for some of the most memorable plays in the history of the Braves' franchise, including their dramatic come-from-behind victory against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1992 National League Championship Series; and for the Braves' 1995 World Series championship, four games to two, over the Cleveland Indians in 1995.

    His ventures into show business included playing a baseball announcer (!) in the movie The Slugger's Wife (1985).
    - IMDb mini biography by: Greg Addington <gregadd@icx.net>

Family

  • Spouses
      Paula Caray(1976 - August 3, 2008) (his death, 2 children)
      Lila Jean Osterkamp(November 1963 - 1970) (divorced, 2 children)
  • Children
      Chip Caray
  • Parents
      Harry Caray
  • Relatives
      Tim Dunigan(Cousin)
      Chris Caray(Grandchild)

Trivia

  • Son of Harry Caray, Father of Chip Caray

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