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To: Ish who wrote (14212)	11/3/1998 6:23:00 PM
From: DScottD	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You had to bring up Harry Caray, didn't you. Here are my three favorite Harry Caray stories. 1. Back in the '70s, when Harry was announcing for the Chicago White Sox, the Sox had a second baseman from Mexico by the name of Jorge Orta. One day, a batter hit a foul popup down the first base line and Orta circled under it. Just as he was about to catch the ball, he started to wave his arms frantically and shield his eyes from the sun, and the ball fell to the ground. Harry, disgusted at Orta's incompetence, blurted out, "Holy Cow! How could a guy from Mexico lose a ball in the sun." 2. During this same time period, the White Sox outfield consisted of Carlos May (who was missing his left thumb, which was shot off in a mortar accident while he was in Reserve training in 1969) in left, Walter Williams (nicknamed No Neck) in center, and Pat Kelly (a weak-armed fair hitting brother of Cleveland Browns great Leroy Kelly) in right. One game, when setting up the White Sox defense for his listeners, Harry referred to the outfield as "No Thumb in left, No Neck in center and No Arm in right." 3. Harry's most Rambicious utterance of all came in 1985 in a game between the Cardinals and the Cubs in Wrigley Field. Late in the game, the Cubs loaded the bases with no one out and the heart of the order coming up. The first batter struck out and the next hit into a double play, ending the inning with no runs scoring. Harry's classic line, "How could an inning start so auspiciously, yet end so ignominiously." Said with a straight face, with perfect ungarbled pre-stroke diction, probably with the help of a few frosty Budweisers. The Pat Kelly reference reminds me of a story involving him and Earl Weaver when Kelly played for the Orioles. Kelly became a born again Christian during one off season and when he saw his manager, Weaver, for the first time in Spring Training the following season, he says to Weaver, "Skip, I want to walk with the Lord." Weaver's retort, "I'd rather have you walk with the bases loaded."