During his career he called the play-by-play for five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals with two of those years also spent calling games for the St. Louis Browns. After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and 11 years with the Chicago White Sox , Caray spent the last 16 years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.
Caray did not have much recollection of his father, who went off to fight in World War I. Caray attended high school at Webster Groves High School. In his youth, Caray was said to be a talented baseball player [ by whom? He possessed the tools to play at the next level; out of high school, the University of Alabama offered Caray a spot on its team. Due to financial woes, Caray could not accept.
Around this time, World War II was occurring. Caray tried to enlist into the Armed Forces , but was denied due to his poor eyesight. Not being able to advance professionally on the playing side of baseball, instead he sold gym equipment [ 3 ] before looking to another avenue to keep his love of baseball alive: using his voice.
Caray caught his break when he landed a job with the National League St. Louis Cardinals in and, according to several histories of the franchise, proved as adept at selling the sponsor's beer as at the play-by-play description.
Caray teamed with former major-league catcher Gabby Street to call Cardinals games through , as well as those of the American League St. Louis Browns in and Immediately preceding the Cardinals job, Caray announced hockey games for the St. On one occasion, Taylor temporarily ended his retirement when he volunteered to play goalie for the Flyers in a regular season game with the team from Minnesota.
