Holy Cow! Chip Caray Said To Be Joining Cardinals Broadcast Team

Harry “Chip” Caray III, grandson of legendary Cards and Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Caray and son of another prominent sportscaster, Harry “Skip” Caray Jr. is close to join the broadcast team of the St. Louis Cardinals, reports The Post-Dispatch,

Chip Caray

Sources said Monday that the 57-year-old Chip Caray, who has called Atlanta Braves games for the past 18 years, is the leading candidate to succeed Dan McLaughlin as the play-by-play broadcaster on Bally Sports Midwest’s Cards telecasts. Later in the day there were reports that he will be making the move, but BSM officials would not comment on the matter.

It is known that the field of candidates has been whittled considerably and that sources said one of the strongest contenders, Seattle Mariners broadcaster Aaron Goldsmith, recently pulled his name out of the competition.

Bally Sports Midwest is searching to replace McLaughlin, who had been in the booth for 24 seasons before departing by ”mutual decision” last month following his third drunken-driving arrest in a little more than a dozen years. This one carried a felony charge.

Caray, who also has strong St. Louis ties, is an announcer on Bally Sports South and Bally Sports Southeast telecasts of the Braves and also has had high-profile stints broadcasting the Cubs and baseball in general for Fox as well as TBS. His dad, Skip Caray, worked in St. Louis at KMOX 1120 AM, where his duties included broadcasting games of the NBA’s Hawks. He moved with them to Atlanta in 1968 and became a popular figure there as well as nationally by calling Braves contests on TBS, which carried the games on cable TV systems across the country.