I WAS GLAD I CAUGHT a lot of Harry Christopher “Skip” Caray Jr. in the last game he broadcast, which was last Thursday. The Braves were at home against the Cardinals, and Skip was in the booth with his longtime partner, Pete Van Wieren. Between the first pitch and the fifth inning I was in various places where I used my trusty XM Radio to check in on the game, and, then, when I got home, I turned to the Braves MLB website and listened from there through the final out, as described, if I remember correctly, by Skip.

Skip started announcing Braves games in 1976, first on radio and then also on TBS. I was already familiar with his work, since he also did the Hawks (the NBA team in Atlanta), and I was impressed by the quality of his basketball broadcasts. Of course, I was familiar, too, with the work of his father, Harry Caray, the Baseball Hall of Famer who broadcast the Cardinals for so many years (fitting, it was, that Skip’s last broadcast was a Cardinals/Braves game, which, by the way, the Braves won).