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  WGNTV.com | WGN TV | Chicago's CW | A Tribune to Harry Caray
Caray reached a major milestone on July 23, 1989, when he was honored as the winner of the Ford Frick Award at the annual induction ceremonies at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Caray was born Harry Christopher Carabina of French-Rumanian and Italian parentage in one of the poorest sections of St. Louis.
Caray was also the owner of a popular eatery in downtown Chicago, Harry Caray's Restaurant, which was established in October of 1987.
wgntv.trb.com /sports/wgntv-caray-harrybio,0,1305129.story   (663 words)

  
 Radio Hall of Fame - Harry Caray, Sportscaster
From 1945 to 1969, Caray was the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals on KMOX/St. Louis.
In 1982, Caray shifted allegiance from the White Sox to the Cubs and became known nationally, as a result of the super station status of WGN Television.
Caray died suddenly in 1998, and his funeral was one of the largest in the city’s history.
www.radiohof.org /sportscasters/harrycaray.html   (271 words)

  
 Harry Caray | BaseballLibrary.com
Harry Caray is broadcasting's premier showman, as much an attraction at the ballpark as the teams for which he works.
Caray was fired in 1969 amid rumors of personal difficulties with the Busch family, then spent one season in Oakland before returning to the Midwest as the voice of the White Sox.
Caray, age 84, was known, among other things, for leading the fans in a rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the 7th—inning stretch at Wrigley Field.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/C/Caray_Harry.stm   (639 words)

  
 Harry Caray
Harry's style is enthusiastic and emotional, and veteran listeners believe they can detect his feelings -- his dejection or elation -- by the inflection of his voice.
That's exactly what Caray did in 1942, and the St. Louis radio executive was so impressed with his approach and subsequent audition, he advised the young fan 10 go to a smaller station end learn the ropes.
Although Caray had never called even a minor league game and was on one of the area's weaker-powered stations, his electric approach and ex-manager Street's captivating color comments soon built a large following.
www.cardinalshistory.com /harry_caray.htm   (876 words)

  
 Harry Caray WAS Baseball
I met Harry Caray over 15 years ago, when I, an innocent 7-year-old after a treasured autograph in an Atlanta hotel lobby, was asked by a white-haired, jolly old man who I had managed to see tonight.
Caray was so much a national treasure that when he returned to the broadcast booth at Wrigley Field from a stroke in 1987, President Reagan called to welcome Harry back.
Caray had asked my father if I could take care of his swimming pool as he was unable or unwilling to do it himself.
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 HARRY CARAYS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Harry Caray and his “tell-it-like-it-is” style of broadcasting had become as synonymous with Chicago baseball fans as the ivy that lines the center field wall at Wrigley Field.
Caray was born Harry Christopher Carabina of French-Romanian and Italian parentage in one of the poorest sections of St. Louis.
The same kind of persistence Harry Caray employed breaking into the broadcasting business was used to snare the woman who shared the roller-coaster ride of the last 23 years of his life.
www.harrycarays.com /index.php?page=about&cat=harrycaray   (1131 words)

  
 Voices of the Game - Harry Caray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caray was undoubtedly a homer, always rooting for his team.
Caray was known to occasionally broadcast games from the bleachers with a cooler of beer, and often grabbed foul bowls with a long fishing net.
Caray's trademark calls, "Holy Cow!" and "It might be, it could be, it is!" are known throughout the baseball world.
iml.jou.ufl.edu /projects/Fall02/Travers/caray.html   (213 words)

  
 Harry Caray - BR Bullpen
Caray's style was concise and crisp, and often critical of poor play, including that of his own club.
Among the honors accorded to Harry Caray was the 1989 Ford Frick Award for meritorious service to broadcasting.
Harry Caray's Restaurant at 33 West Kinzie in Chicago is also a must visit when in the city.
www.baseball-reference.com /bullpen/Harry_Caray   (659 words)

  
 "Harry Caray" Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caray broadcast for a year with the Oakland A‚s and after ten years with the Chicago White Sox joined the Cubs in 1982 becoming a national celebrity with the success of WGN.
Harry Caray was a broadcaster for 53 years from 1945 to 1998.
Harry was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame's broadcasters' wing in 1989 and into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990.
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 ASA Hall of Fame-Harry Caray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caray soon became the colorful, often controversial spokesman for the Cardinal fan, broadcasting to several generations of St. Louis baseball enthusiasts.
It was in St. Louis where Caray first gained national recognition, making fans across the nation with his ability to capture the heart of baseball--and his inability to sing.
Caray's unique rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" has become a favorite with baseball fans across the United States, though his voice has been compared to a "buzz saw" and is said to "sound like he got hit in the throat with a shovel and never recovered".
www.americansportscasters.com /caray.html   (249 words)

  
 TheDeadballEra.com :: HARRY CARAY'S OBIT
Harry Caray, whose zesty, raucous style of baseball play-by-play electrified airwaves and roused fans for more than half a century, died Wednesday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. He was 78.
Caray cut a humorous, opinionated and sometimes controversial figure, whether his loud and pungent voice was calling (and rooting for) the St. Louis Cardinals, the Oakland A's, the Chicago White Sox or the Chicago Cubs.
Caray thanked him and then quickly said, "And in the excitement, Bob Dernier beat out a bunt down the third-base line." In 1989, Caray was awarded entry into the broadcasters' wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
www.thedeadballera.com /Obits/Caray.Harry.Obit.html   (968 words)

  
 Harry Caray Quotes by Baseball Almanac
Baseball Almanac is pleased to present an unprecedented collection of baseball related quotations spoken by Harry Caray and about Harry Caray.
Harry Caray is credited with the first singing of Take Me Out To The Ball Game at a regular season ballgame.
In 1989 Harry Caray was given the Ford C. Frick Award, which recognizes the broadcaster for his or her major contributions to Major League baseball.
www.baseball-almanac.com /quotes/quocaray.shtml   (673 words)

  
 Harry Caray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Harry Caray memorialized in a statue near Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Harry Caray (born Harry Christopher Carabina, March 1, 1914 — February 18, 1998), was a beloved TV and radio broadcaster for four Major League Baseball teams, lastly the Chicago Cubs of the National League.
Chip Caray replaced Harry as the Cubs' play-by-play announcer from 1998 to 2004, then fired by the Cubs, he later went to work with his father Skip on Atlanta Braves broadcasts.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harry_Caray   (1230 words)

  
 HARRY CARAYS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Harry Caray's Restaurant, named for the late Hall of Fame baseball announcer, opened on October 23, 1987 and has become one of the most nationally recognized restaurants in the Midwest.
Harry Caray’s has won numerous awards including “Best Steakhouse” by the Chicago Tribune’s Dining Poll, Wine Spectator’s prestigious “Award of Excellence” every year since 1989, and has been ranked continuously in the top 100 highest grossing restaurants in America.
Located in the heart of Chicago's River North, Harry Caray’s Chicago, designated the "Official Home Plate of the Chicago Cubs," is within walking distance of numerous major hotels and office buildings.
www.harrycarays.com /index.php?page=about&cat=harrycaray   (162 words)

  
 No one entertained better than Harry Caray
For another whole generation of baseball fans in the south and midwest, Harry Caray was known as the radio voice of their beloved St. Louis Cardinals.
I remember listening to Harry shout repeatedly "the Cardinals win the pennant" when the Redbirds beat the New York Mets and the Cubs upended the Philadelphia Phillies on the final day of the 1964 season, clinching the National League crown for St. Louis.
Caray was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989.
www.texnews.com /1998/sports/alcol0220.html   (610 words)

  
 National Baseball Hall of Fame - 1989 Frick Award Winner Harry Caray
Before television blanketed the country and before backyards (and front yards) were overrun with satellite dishes, Caray's outspoken, opinionated, sometimes outrageous and often controversial approach was the public's pipeline from the Great Plains to the Eastern seaboard.
Caray began his major league career behind the mike with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1945.
Caray's reputation as a fearless and out-spoken critic frequently led to disenchantment on the part of his various employers.
baseballhalloffame.org /hofers_and_honorees/frick_bios/caray_harry.htm   (216 words)

  
 Harry Caray (   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Harry Christopher Carabina was born in 1914 in a very poor neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri.
Harry was extremely popular with St. Louis baseball fans but it was in Chicago where Caray's popularity skyrocketed to a unprecedented level.
Caray suffered a setback in 1987, when he had a slight stroke that impaired his speech somewhat.
www.missouri.edu /~jwhe0c/caray.html   (593 words)

  
 CNN/SI - Baseball - Baseball loses a legend - February 18, 1998
Caray was the patriarch of a three-generation broadcast family.
Caray won the Ford C. Frick Award in 1989 to put him in the broadcast wing of the baseball Hall of Fame, and he was elected to the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Hall of Fame in 1988.
Caray once said Cardinals star Musial was the best baseball player he had ever seen, although he said a case could be made for Willie Mays, Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Hank Aaron and others of their era.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /baseball/mlb/news/1998/02/18/harry_caray/index.html   (1457 words)

  
 Harry Caray   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caray died last Thursday at the questionable age of 83 in Rancho Mirage, Calif., four days after suffering a heart attack.
The great attendance of fans celebrating Caray's life wasn't unexpected, as it was said those who came in contact with the legendary broadcaster were blessed from the experience.
Caray wasn't above his legend either; he epitomized the everyman and was the ultimate baseball fan who marveled at and loved the game in which “each man makes it or breaks it within 90 feet.”
archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1998/022398/022498.caray.html   (383 words)

  
 Harry Caray (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Harry Caray entered the broadcasters wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989, the 13th recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.
If you are a younger fan and your main Harry Caray memory is of him as a venerable Cubs TV announcer, wait until you hear his work with the Cardinals in the 1950s and ‘60s.
Chicago and Harry were a match made in heaven, and he spent the final 27 years of his career (and life) in the Windy City.
www.baseballvoices.com.cob-web.org:8888 /html/harry_caray.html   (1031 words)

  
 Harry Caray's in Chicago
In addition to the signs reminding everyone that Harry just passed, all of the workers inside seemed a little depressed, showing that even his restaurant staff must have loved him.
Harry Carry’s is a good sized restaurant that serves lunch and dinner and also has a room to the far right that is more like a sports bar.
Our waitress came to take her order and I asked her what was Harry’s favorite, and she told me it would either be a hot dog or the prime rib sandwich.
www.chicagonights.com /features/harrycarry/harry.htm   (571 words)

  
 Forever we'll hear his voice - baseball announcer Harry Caray - Column Sporting News, The - Find Articles
Harry Caray put out his right hand, only to have the missile slap off his palm.
I'd been places and seen things with Harry because the glory of baseball's radio days was the medium's insistence that you, the listener, take part.
Obituaries and appreciations insist Harry Caray's work for 53 years was the work of a fan, funny and cocky when his team won, angry and melancholy when it lost.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1208/is_n9_v222/ai_20348112   (911 words)

  
 Holy Cow! It's Harry Caray! Saturday Evening Post - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Caray's voice is nearly muffled by the crowd.
Caray's major league broadcasting career began with the St. Louis Cardinals, bringing him his first taste of national fame.
Baseball inducted Caray into the broadcasters' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame on July 23 in Cooperstown, New York.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1189/is_n7_v261/ai_7980753   (926 words)

  
 Chicagoist: Harry Caray Bandit
Here's someone who may be in the running: The Harry Caray Bandit.
The Harry Caray Bandit got away with $2,000, but the teller also put a red dye pack into the bag, so good luck spending that money.
Caray is not a suspect," as though his ghost may have risen and robbed a suburban bank.
www.chicagoist.com /archives/2006/03/31/harry_caray_bandit.php   (360 words)

  
 Harry Caray's | Restaurant Review | Chicago | Frommers.com
A shrine to the legendary Cubs play-by-play announcer, this landmark building is a repository for Harry's staggering collection of baseball memorabilia.
It would be easy to lump Harry's with other celebrity restaurants, but as one reviewer pointed out, the food is better than it has to be.
Harry's is also a good place to order big plates of meat: dry-aged steaks, lamb, veal, and pork chops.
www.frommers.com /destinations/chicago/D31566.html   (317 words)

  
 A Tribute to Harry Caray
Harry was a major-league baseball broadcaster for 53 years from 1945-98;
Harry was orphaned at the age of 10.
Harry had a sense of humor, he was critical, he made mistakes,
www.powermaxconsulting.com /harrycaray.htm   (527 words)

  
 Harry Caray's - Rosemont
Harry Caray's Restaurant in Rosemont, is a legendary Italian Steakhouse showcasing the late baseball announcer's Hall of Fame career.
Harry Caray's won Wine Spectators prestigious "Award of Excellence & was voted "Best Restaurant/Bar" in the Mid-West by Sante Magazine.
Harry Caray's is a preferred provider at many of Chicago's most desirable venues & premier landmarks.
www.opentable.com /rest_profile.aspx?rid=2383   (311 words)

  
 Harry Caray's - Chicago
Harry Caray's Restaurant, named for the late Hall of Fame baseball announcer, is a legendary Italian Steakhouse.
Catering: Harry Caray's Catering & Events offers unparalleled service for a wide range of off-premises events including corporate functions, social events, weddings, offices & private residences.
Each room is home to some of Harry's most authentic baseball memorabilia which creates a casual, yet elegant decor.
www.opentable.com /rest_profile.aspx?rid=2382   (237 words)

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