Skip Caray

[4] In September 2007, he was not asked to announce League Division Series games on TBS, and was kept exclusive to the Braves as the team's broadcasts moved to local Atlanta station WPCH-TV (Peachtree TV, a direct descendant of the original WTBS).

[5] Perhaps Caray's most memorable call was his description[6] of Francisco Cabrera's game-winning hit in Game 7 of the 1992 National League Championship Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The game itself was ultimately decided on Braves first-baseman Sid Bream beating out Pirates left-fielder Barry Bonds' throw to home plate.

In 2000, NBC hired Caray to do play-by-play with Joe Morgan on the AL Division Series between the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics.

Caray was filling in for Bob Costas, who sat out the Division Series after anchoring NBC's prime time coverage of the Summer Olympic Games from Sydney, Australia.

On December 11, 1982, Caray along with Abe Lemons called the much hyped college basketball contest between Virginia and Georgetown[12][13] (led by Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing[14] respectively) for TBS.

He made his motion picture debut in the 1985 movie The Slugger's Wife, starring Michael O'Keefe, Randy Quaid and Rebecca De Mornay.

[15] For example, during a particularly long losing streak in the 1980s, Caray declared at the start of a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, "And, like lambs to the slaughter, the Braves take the field".

[18] In one instance, in order to get back at Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Ron Hudspeth for a critical column,[citation needed] Caray paid to have an airplane tow a banner above Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium during a Braves game which read, "For a good time, call Rona Hudspeth", and included Ron's actual phone number.

Similarly, when daytime home games went long, Caray would routinely give a "traffic report" at exactly 5 o'clock on radio broadcasts.

When the Braves suffered a severely bad outing, and the score was strongly lopsided in favor of the other team, in late innings he would often tell fans "It's OK to walk the dog now, folks, if you promise to support our sponsors.

[21] In an attempt to combat criticism of Caray's on-air "home team" bias and to market its baseball coverage to non-Braves fans, during the 2003 season, TBS removed him and Pete Van Wieren from announcing Braves games on television.

[22] Over 90% of Braves fans who voted in an online poll conducted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution preferred Caray and Van Wieren to the more neutral broadcasts.

[25] He had been suffering from failing health for nearly a year prior, but returned to work for the 2008 season, calling a game on radio as recently as three days before his death.

Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren acknowledging fans at a game in 1983 .