Braves announcer Skip Caray dies

RIP Skip. You will be missed. :cry:

Braves announcer Skip Caray dies
By TIM TUCKER
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/03/08

Skip Caray made the call when the Atlanta Braves won the World Series in 1995: "Yes! Yes! Yes! The Atlanta Braves have given you a championship! Listen to this crowd!"

He made the call when Sid Bream scored on Francisco Cabrera's pinch-hit to win the National League Championship Series for the Braves in 1992: "Here comes Bream! Here's the throw to the plate! He iiiiiiiisssssssss ... safe! Braves win! Braves win! Braves win! Braves win! ... Braves win!"

And he made the call in the late innings of a lousy game in the lost season of 1979: "You have our permission to turn off the TV and go to bed now ... as long as you promise to patronize our sponsors."

Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray Jr. moved from St. Louis to Atlanta in the 1960s partly to escape the professional shadow of his father, the iconic and inimitable baseball broadcaster Harry Caray. Over the next four decades, with a style very much his own, Skip Caray became as much the voice of baseball in the Southeast as his father had been in the Midwest.

Caray died in his sleep Sunday at his Atlanta home, the Braves announced. He was 68.

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And 68 is too damn young. He had a lot of games yet to call.

I love the Braves and Skip was one of the best broadcasters ever! (Skip's dad, Harry Caray, was a legend!)

Just the other week, I heard him quip "The bases are loaded...again...I wish I were too!" :rofl:

His son Chip was a sportscaster for the student radio station here in Athens, GA when I was in school at UGA. Chip sounded like a pro even at that young age!

RIP Skip! We'll miss you!