Chip Caray

My grandparents were divorced as well.

I didn't know Harry very well.

I didn't spend an awful lot of time with him growing up.

And the same sadly was true with my dad until I went to college at Georgia.

He was down in Atlanta and we really got to connect as father son, really connected.

when i was 19 18 years old um but you know like so many kids of our age or our rough age i'm probably a decade or 22 decades older than you i would come home from school flip on the tv the cubs would be on and usually it was right around the time that harry would start singing take me out to the ball game the cubs weren't really very good uh for a lot of those years they were of course in 84 um

And in the early 80s, and then I'd go do my thing, do my homework, go to baseball practice, come home, have dinner, and then invariably turn on a Braves game because my dad was on.

That's when cable TV started to penetrate the western suburbs in St.

Louis where I grew up.

And that's when I really started to get the connection of, wow, that's my dad and my grandfather.

And I guess what they do is kind of cool.

I love baseball.

I wasn't a particularly good student then.

And watching them and listening to them, I just sort of made my family connections through the magic of television, not really through Thanksgiving dinners or birthday celebrations or even hanging out really at the ballpark, with the exception, of course, the time I got spent with my dad.

So to your point... It was.

It was rare, but...

Yeah, it was rare.

In my opinion, it was a big misstep by Major League Baseball.

I know that there were stories when the Braves would go to Houston, for example, and the then ownership of the Astros would be angry because his stadium was filled with 20,000 Braves fans and they'd have a crowd of 30,000, 35,000 people.

And it sounded more like the Braves were playing at home than on the road.