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Skip Caray

Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray, Jr. (born August 12, 1939 at St. Louis, Missouri) is a TV and radio broadcaster for the Atlanta Braves of the National League.

Caray grew up in baseball as the son of Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray. He studied television and radio at the University of Missouri where he lettered in football as an underclassman. He began his career in St. Louis calling Saint Louis University and St. Louis Hawks basketball. Caray moved with the Hawks to Atlanta. In 1976, he was added to the broadcast team for the Braves, a position he has held since.

In 2000, NBC hired Caray to do play-by-play with Joe Morgan on the Division Series between the New York Yankees & Oakland Athletics. Caray was filling in for Bob Costas, who sat out the Division Series after anchoring NBC's primetime coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Sydney.

Caray is the father of Atlanta Braves broadcaster Chip Caray.

Caray's crowning achievement came on April 10, 2005, when he posed for a picture with his best friend, Wryn Vance. Vance, a successful radio show host in the Auburn, Alabama, market, was always thought of fondly by Caray. Skip attested much of his celebrity status in radio and television to Vance, and the meeting brought tears into Caray's eyes. A picture of this momentus occasion can be found at this link: 319599821AiIgey_ph.jpg

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