A Nice Little Place on the North Side: Wrigley Field at One Hundred by Will George

Author:Will, George [Will, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780385349321
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2014-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

Getting things not quite right is something of a tradition around Wrigley Field. Another statue outside the ballpark is of broadcaster Harry Caray, who sang “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” during thousands of Wrigley Field seventh-inning stretches and almost always sang it wrong. He sang “take me out to the crowd” rather than “with the crowd” and “I don’t care if I ever get back” rather than “if I never get back.” It was almost as though even off-the-field errors somehow authenticated the Wrigley Field experience. Caray was one of three famous baseball people to come from the Italian section of St. Louis. The other two were catchers: Joe Garagiola, who had a better career in broadcasting than as a player, and Yogi Berra. In 1945, Caray became the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Cardinals and, briefly, for the St. Louis Browns, too. In 1953, the Cardinals were bought by August Busch II of the Budweiser brewery dynasty. According to Golenbock, Caray was fired by the Cardinals in 1969 for a reason that never became public knowledge:

Detectives hired by the Busch family discovered a string of telephone calls from Harry to the wife of August Busch III, Gussie’s son. They intuited that Harry, whose reputation for drinking and partying was legendary, was having an affair with this woman. Harry never denied it. All he said was, “I never raped anyone in my life.”

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