Braves announcer Skip Caray dies

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | 4 Aug 2008 | Tim Tucker

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Skip Caray made the call when the Atlanta Braves won the World Series in 1995: "Yes! Yes! Yes! The 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."

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

"I got to talk to him yesterday and I told him I loved him and he started laughing because I was stuck in New York," said Chip Caray, who flew from New York to Atlanta after he got the news on Sunday, rather than joining the Braves in San Francisco. "It was our own private little joke. I at least got to tell him I loved him which was the last thing I said to him, so I'm grateful for that."

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I can remember sneaking a radio under the covers when I was teen to listen to Skip, Pete and Ernie broadcast the Braves when they were on west coast swings.

RIP Skip, you will be missed.

[traderrob6]

68 is surprisingly young to be dying in your sleep.

[mak5]

Caray missed several weeks of work late in the 2007 season because of mounting health problems, and he reduced his broadcast schedule to home games at the start of the 2008 season. He was battling diabetes, congestive heart failure, an irregular heartbeat and reduced kidney and liver functions, he said in April 2008. "I almost died in October [2007]," Caray told an Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter at the Braves' 2008 home opener. But he was on the air that night, vowing to call as many games as he could for as long as he could do the job well.

Not so surprising when your health is as bad as his has been for the past few years.

[Cailleach]

braves win braves win braves win
ping

[Hebrews 11:6]

Always enjoyed Skip’s announcing. In his words, “He hit the daylights out of it.” R.I.P.

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skip Will be sorely missed on Braves telecasts.

My favorite Skipism came a couple years ago during yet another Braves bullpen meltdown - “the bases are loaded once again, and I wish I was too!”

[Hebrews 11:6]

Thanks--that's a good one.

I've been very blessed baseball-wise. Living in southern California, I became a Dodger fan in 1956--and two years later they arrived! So I've been privileged to listen to the best, Vin Scully, for fifty-one years. Actually, this is his fifty-eighth year: he's still going strong at eighty! When he finally hangs 'em up....