My Brush with One of Baseball’s Greats
Skip Caray, Braves’ play-by-play man for more than 33 years, passed on recently. He was remembered fondly by fans and by the AJC’s Furman Bisher, who called him a “curmudgeon.” I had been out of college and on the job at WSB AM Atlanta, the Braves’ flagship at the time. My instructions were to break into programming whenever news broke, so one night as a Braves commercial set was ending, I did. The story was about some Energy Department officials’ warning about potential of gas rationing. As I turned off the mic, Caray told the entire Braves network audience, “boy, everything’s a bulletin to that guy.” I wrote him a heated letter, which he returned with a handwritten note. You can imagine what it said. He was, indeed, a curmudgeon who had no trouble speaking his mind, and that’s the value he brought to Braves fans around the country.
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