Harry Caray's Diary of a Drunken Man

The reason for the journal was not to keep a diary of his drunken life but to substantiate his "entertainment" tax deductions.

 

I always heard that was Dizzy Dean's line.

 

The line has been attributed to many different announcers, and is likely an urban legend.

 

If you say "bar tab" backwards, Steve, it sounds like...

Batter rab... tat rab... bat rat... bat rab...

Bat rab, Steve, that's really something.

 

Chamberlain says he slept with thousands of women, many before the commercial introduction of the birth control pill and to my knowledge, never got hit with a paternity suit. Was Wilt really interested in floozies?

 

For Wilt to put up those kinds of numbers, I would imagine he was interested in practically anything even remotely female.

 

I'm pretty certain the "He's from Mexico" line was actually said. There was one other famous line that people always attributed to him, that apparently he never said. I'm spacing it.

 

I worked with an editor who was a huge Caray fan, and the one line he would always say was, "Mota spelled backwards is Atom..."

 

I remember hearing him call a Cub player's at bat horrible for looking at a called third to end the game.

C'mon Jose!

One time Jose!

You can do it!

Pop

Dead air

That's horrible.

 

My favorite Harry story was told by Skip on the air shortly before he (Skip) died. Apparently, Harry was sitting in a hotel bar on the road one night after a long, extra-inning game, with a day game to follow in less than 12 hours.

A woman walked up to Harry and said, "I'll do anything you want for $50."

Harry replied, "How 'bout tomorrow's pre-game show?"

 

I think it was "South America" not "Mexico"

 

Did that a lot in the one year he was with the A's. What a mismatch between the market and even in the booth with Monte Moore.