Harry Caray
Posted by: Groundspeak Regular Member Special.Ed
N 42° 03.649 W 087° 53.902
16T E 425669 N 4656919
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster.
Waymark Code: WMB1D
Location: Illinois, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2006
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member cache_test_dummies
Views: 94

Located in All Saints Cemetery, Des Plaines Illinois. It is among other similar markers and nothing fancy considering his fame. Engraved in to the stone next to his name is his signature line "Holy Cow" and a characture of Harry sporting his famous glasses. A must visit for all baseball fans, especially those in Chicago.

Description:

He was born Harry Christopher Carabina in St. Louis, Missouri on March 1, 1914 and was orphaned by age of 10. Caray played semi-pro baseball before beginning his career in broadcasting. Caray learned his craft at stations in Joliet and Kalamazoo, Michigan, eventually doing the play-by-play for the St. Louis Hawks and the University of Missouri football team.

While working at WKZO in Kalamazoo, Caray worked with a young talented newscaster named Paul Harvey. Caray spent twenty-five years in St. Louis leaving in 1970 after a dispute with the team owners. Caray broadcast for a year with the Oakland A‚s and after ten years with the Chicago White Sox joined the Cubs in 1982 becoming a national celebrity with the success of WGN. Harry Caray was a broadcaster for 53 years from 1945 to 1998. Harry was named broadcaster of the year seven times by Sporting News.

Harry was inducted into the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame's broadcasters' wing in 1989 and into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1990. Harry Caray collapsed at a Rancho Mirage, California, nightclub after a Valentine's Day dinner with his wife. After spending four days in a coma, Caray succumbed shortly after being removed from life-support.
(From FindAGrave.com bio by: Eran Bair)



Date of birth: 03/01/1914

Date of death: 02/18/1998

Area of notoriety: Sports

Marker Type: Headstone

Setting: Outdoor

Visiting Hours/Restrictions: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Fee required?: No

Web site: Not listed

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