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| | 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. |
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