Jimmy Piersall
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James Anthony Piersall was an American baseball center fielder who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball for five teams, from 1950 through 1967. Piersall was best known for his well-publicized ba
Piersall in 1953
Piersall with President John F. Kennedy in 1962
Harry Caray
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Harry Christopher Caray was an American radio and television sportscaster. During his career he called the play-by-play for five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the gam
Jimmy Piersall
…Rangers beginning in 1974 (doing color and play-by-play for televised games), and with the Chicago White Sox from 1977 to 1981, when he was teamed with Harry Caray. He ultimately was fired after excessive on-air criticism of team management. In February 1986, Chicago Cubs general manager Dallas Green, off whom he…
Caray in the Wrigley Field booth in 1988
Caray in 1951, when he was with the St. Louis Cardinals. The team's broadcasts were sponsored by the Griesedieck Brothers brewery prior to its purchase by Anheuser-Busch in 1953.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan in the press box with Caray during a 1988 game at Wrigley Field
Caray demonstrating how he used a fishing net to catch foul balls in the Cardinals broadcast booth at Sportsman's Park, 1957. He continued this practice when he worked for other teams.