Who is Harry Caray?
In 1984, the Chicago Cubs baseball team captured the Eastern Division National League Championship — their first in many, many years. Many names stand out from that winning team, but it would have not been the same without hearing WGN-TV Cubs announcer Harry Caray whooping from the broadcast booth the day the Cubs clinched the title. Harry Caray was WGN’s announcer for the Cubs from 1982 through 1997. Although he spent 25 years as the Cardinals’ announcer in St. Louis, Missouri, he gained national fame and friendship as the Voice of the Cubs. As “superstations” like WGN and WTBS from Atlanta became available on cable systems nationally, and then internationally, a whole new audience for these stations materialized. The Atlanta Braves baseball team may have billed itself as “America’s Team,” but with Harry Caray as their voice, the Chicago Cubs probably had more claim to the title. Caray was born Harry Carabina in 1914 to an impoverished Romanian-Italian family in St. Louis, Missouri. H
