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The Legendary Harry Caray

Baseball's Greatest Salesman

Don Zminda

Harry Caray is one of the most famous and beloved sports broadcasters of all time, with a career that lasted over 50 years. Always a baseball enthusiast, Caray once vowed to become a broadcaster who was the true voice of the fans. Caray’s distinctive style soon resonated across St. Louis, then Chicago, and eventually across the nation.

In
The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball’s Greatest Salesman, Don Zminda delivers the first full-length biography of Caray since his death in 1998. It includes details of Caray’s orphaned childhood, his 25 years as the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, his tempestuous 11 years broadcasting games for the Chicago White Sox, and the 16 years he broadcast for the Chicago Cubs while also becoming a nationally-known celebrity. Interviews with significant figures from Caray’s life are woven throughout, from his widow Dutchie and grandson Chip to broadcasters Bob Costas, Thom Brennaman, Dewayne Staats, Pat Hughes, and more.

Caray was known during his final years as a beloved, often-imitated grandfather figure with the Cubs, but the story of his entire career is much more nuanced and often controversial. Featuring new information on Caray’s life—including little-known information about his firing by the Cardinals and his feuds with players, executives, and fellow broadcasters—this book provides an intimate and in-depth look at a broadcasting legend.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 352 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-5381-1294-6 • Hardback • April 2019 • $42.00 • (£35.00)
978-1-5381-5907-1 • Paperback • December 2021 • $20.00 • (£14.99)
Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Biography, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General

Don Zminda spent more than two decades with STATS LLC, first as director of publications and then director of research for STATS-supported sports broadcasts. He has written or edited over a dozen sports books, including Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and the SABR publication Go-Go to Glory: The 1959 Chicago White Sox. He has been a member of the Society for Baseball Research since 1979. A Chicago native, Zminda now resides in Los Angeles.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: The Man Who Wasn’t There

2: Early Days

3: Voice of the Cardinals

4: Changing Times

5: New Partners

6: KMOX

7: Up and Downs

8: Glory Days

9: End of an Era

10: Siberia

11: New Man in Town

12: South Side Blues

13: A Tumultuous Year

14: Harry, Jimmy, and Bill

15: Demolition

16: Eddie and Jerry and Harry and Jimmy

17: Harry Heads North

18: Superstar of the Superstation

19: Stroke and Recovery

20: The Mayor of Rush Street

21: North Side versus South Side

22: Slips, Strikes, and Controversies

23: Last Call

24: A Long Goodbye

25: Epilogue: Harry Caray’s Lasting Impact

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Don Zminda has given us a biography worthy of the subject.... His fans will love this book.


— Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine


Harry Caray was a larger-than-life personality in the broadcast booth and in his personal life. He made his early reputation as the St. Louis Cardinals’ radio announcer but is most remembered for his years in Chicago, first with the White Sox and later with the Cubs, where he cemented his national profile through the WGN cable network. Zminda, veteran sports journalist and a Chicago native, is perfectly situated to track Caray’s tumultuous tenure in the Windy City. As the voice of the White Sox, Caray could be hypercritical of players and management. He and his partner, Jimmy Piersall, while adored by listeners, burned more bridges than a retreating army. Once Caray moved to the Cubs, he became more of a “homer,” building up the team rather than tearing it down, though the frustration in his voice was evident whenever he intoned his signature phrase, describing yet another Cub who “popped it up.” Zminda draws on personal interviews and press accounts to vividly capture Caray’s misadventures, both professionally and personally. Expect significant demand, especially in the Midwest, where Caray is still the standard by which all other baseball announcers are measured.
— Booklist


Exhaustively researched and wonderfully written. . . . Some biographers hate their subjects; some adore them. Don Zminda does neither. He is not an advocate. Instead, to use a sports phrase, he is an umpire, calling Harry Caray’s life as he saw it. But better than an umpire, Zminda is a fan, re-creating for readers baseball in the second half of the 20th century when the game changed substantially. The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball’s Greatest Salesman is a great baseball book. This fan is happy to include it in his baseball collection.
— Illinois Times


The Legendary Harry. . . portrays Caray as shrewd enough to recognize that broadcasting as a fan meant occasionally expressing a fan’s frustrations. “I started ripping everybody in sight,” he said of his early career. “It was a calculated thing to make people know you’re there. And it worked.”
— Literary Review Of Canada


Zminda’s book is not only a fine biography of a “larger than life” man, it’s also a fascinating history of baseball and broadcasting in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. If you lived through those years like I did, the book will bring back many fond memories. If you didn’t, the book is worth reading to understand how a man born in St. Louis and once tightly identified with the Cardinals wound up with a statue outside Wrigley Field.
— Bleed Cubbie Blue


The work Zminda puts into this is impressive and far exceeds anything done in a journalistic fashion on Caray’s career — this isn’t something meant to make readers feel warm and fuzzy.
— Tom Hoffarth's "The Drill"


Harry Caray springs to life, thanks to Don Zminda’s meticulous research. Caray’s artistry and his personal flaws are under Zminda’s microscope, and the reader benefits from this rare analysis of one of broadcasting’s most controversial characters.
— Bill Brown, veteran MLB broadcaster


Zminda’s book on Harry Caray fully captures the bluster, color, and brilliance of baseball’s raspy-throated clown prince.
— Chris Erskine, columnist, Los Angeles Times


Don Zminda’s deep dive into Harry Caray’s amazing life and broadcasting career is a must-read for baseball fans of every generation. Caray was intimately linked to no less than three big league franchises—the St. Louis Cardinals and both Chicago franchises, most notably the Cubs, with whom he became a national TV treasure. It’s a wild and riotous ride with tons of laughs, iconic moments, and yes, beer.
— Len Kasper, play-by-play announcer, Chicago Cubs


If I were asked what all-time baseball announcer most loved the pastime, I would almost surely answer Harry Caray, its irrepressible, incorrigible, unforgettable Falstaff behind the microphone. Don Zminda shows why, as was once said of Bill Veeck, Harry made of baseball a Carnival, “every day a Mardi Gras, and every fan a King."
— Curt Smith, author, Voices of The Game: The Acclaimed Chronicle of Baseball Radio and Television Broadcasting


Harry Carabina, as he revealed on my nationally syndicated Talking Baseball television show (I had never met him before he walked into the studio), sure worked his way up from selling newspapers on the streets of St. Louis as a boy. You gotta love a guy who says, “I sing ‘Take Me Out To the Ballgame’ because it’s the only song I know the words to.”
— Ed Randall, host of “Ed Randall’s Talking Baseball” on WFAN Sports Radio and “Remember When” on SiriusXM


Harry Caray’s life could be and should be the basis for a major motion picture. And when that happens, this is the book that should be used for the source material. It’s an insightful, well-researched, at times hilarious and frank look at the man, the myth, the mistakes, the madness and the magnificence of this one-of-a-kind legend.
— Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times and WGN radio


There was no one in baseball quite like Harry Caray. And now, through Don’s words, we get to know the storyteller, character, and brutally honest force of nature behind the seventh-inning stretch and Will Ferrell impression. It might be … it could be … it is a joy to read.
— Joe Posnanski, national columnist, The Athletic


4/2/19, Daily Herald: A Cubs baseball roundup "Plenty of appealing book choices for Cubs and White Sox fans this spring" by Bruce Miles included the book. Link: https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20190402/plenty-of-appealing-book-choices-for-cubs-and-white-sox-fans-this-spring

4/15/19: Author Don Zminda interviewed by WBBM Newsradio Chicago about book topic: “New Book Looks Back On Harry Caray's Life”
Link: https://wbbm780.radio.com/new-book-harry-caray-life-baseball-broadcaster


4/28/19: Author Don Zminda interviewed by WGN Radio in Chicago.
Link: https://wgnradio.com/2019/04/28/the-legendary-harry-caray-baseballs-greatest-salesman/


5/2/2019: Check out the Chicago Tribune's book feature "7 things we learned from a new Harry Caray book that tries to separate fact from legend" Link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-cb-cubs-white-sox-harry-caray-book-20190502-story.html

5/17/19: Author shared little-known facts about Harry Caray with Lakeshore Public Radio.
Link: https://www.lakeshorepublicradio.org/post/new-book-reveals-little-known-facts-about-harry-carey#stream/0


5/20/19: Author Don Zminda was the guest on the 200th episode of the podcast "Baseball by the Book." Listen here: https://baseballbythebook.libsyn.com/episode-200-the-legendary-harry-caray

5/23/19: Author Don Zminda shares stories from Harry's life with Holy Cow! A Cubs Podcast.
Link: https://soundcloud.com/sean-holland-657648616/holy-cow-a-cubs-podcast-episode-52-don-zminda


5/29/19: Author Don Zminda discussed the legend Harry Caray with the Cub's Club 400 podcast.
Link: https://club400radio.podbean.com/


6/24/19: Watch Don Zminda speak with the hosts of Fox 32 News Chicago about Caray's legacy.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx3UzDHZauk


7/29/19: Listen to Don Zminda talk all things Harry Caray with the hosts of WGN Radio's "Bill and Wendy Show." Link: https://wgnradio.com/2019/07/29/don-zmindas-new-book-offers-insights-into-the-legendary-life-of-harry-caray/

8/2/19: Watch Don Zminda share tales from the book on PBS Chicago's "Chicago Tonight."

Link: https://video.wttw.com/video/remarkable-life-legendary-harry-caray-fba03n/

4/7/2021: Don’s book was mentioned in this article written for the Chicago Tribune which talked about the start of Harry Caray’s start with the Chicago White Sox.

Link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-cb-chicago-white-sox-harry-caray-debut-20210407-os2sd3huobd6rbc65346ctnjfi-story.html



4/26/21: Don wrote an article about Harry Caray’s debut as the announcer for the Chicago White Sox.

Link: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/66415/harry-on-the-south-side-1971-81-booze-broads-baseball-and-bulls/



8/24/22, Pandemic Baseball Book Club: Don Zminda is interviewed about the book.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBm_HVAF_w0



• Long-listed, CASEY Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year (Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, 2019)

The Legendary Harry Caray

Baseball's Greatest Salesman

Cover Image
Hardback
Paperback
Summary
Summary
  • Harry Caray is one of the most famous and beloved sports broadcasters of all time, with a career that lasted over 50 years. Always a baseball enthusiast, Caray once vowed to become a broadcaster who was the true voice of the fans. Caray’s distinctive style soon resonated across St. Louis, then Chicago, and eventually across the nation.

    In
    The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball’s Greatest Salesman, Don Zminda delivers the first full-length biography of Caray since his death in 1998. It includes details of Caray’s orphaned childhood, his 25 years as the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals, his tempestuous 11 years broadcasting games for the Chicago White Sox, and the 16 years he broadcast for the Chicago Cubs while also becoming a nationally-known celebrity. Interviews with significant figures from Caray’s life are woven throughout, from his widow Dutchie and grandson Chip to broadcasters Bob Costas, Thom Brennaman, Dewayne Staats, Pat Hughes, and more.

    Caray was known during his final years as a beloved, often-imitated grandfather figure with the Cubs, but the story of his entire career is much more nuanced and often controversial. Featuring new information on Caray’s life—including little-known information about his firing by the Cardinals and his feuds with players, executives, and fellow broadcasters—this book provides an intimate and in-depth look at a broadcasting legend.
Details
Details
  • Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
    Pages: 352 • Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
    978-1-5381-1294-6 • Hardback • April 2019 • $42.00 • (£35.00)
    978-1-5381-5907-1 • Paperback • December 2021 • $20.00 • (£14.99)
    Subjects: Sports & Recreation / Baseball / History, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Biography, Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General
Author
Author
  • Don Zminda spent more than two decades with STATS LLC, first as director of publications and then director of research for STATS-supported sports broadcasts. He has written or edited over a dozen sports books, including Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) and the SABR publication Go-Go to Glory: The 1959 Chicago White Sox. He has been a member of the Society for Baseball Research since 1979. A Chicago native, Zminda now resides in Los Angeles.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    1: The Man Who Wasn’t There

    2: Early Days

    3: Voice of the Cardinals

    4: Changing Times

    5: New Partners

    6: KMOX

    7: Up and Downs

    8: Glory Days

    9: End of an Era

    10: Siberia

    11: New Man in Town

    12: South Side Blues

    13: A Tumultuous Year

    14: Harry, Jimmy, and Bill

    15: Demolition

    16: Eddie and Jerry and Harry and Jimmy

    17: Harry Heads North

    18: Superstar of the Superstation

    19: Stroke and Recovery

    20: The Mayor of Rush Street

    21: North Side versus South Side

    22: Slips, Strikes, and Controversies

    23: Last Call

    24: A Long Goodbye

    25: Epilogue: Harry Caray’s Lasting Impact

    Notes

    Bibliography

    Index

    About the Author

Reviews
Reviews
  • Don Zminda has given us a biography worthy of the subject.... His fans will love this book.


    — Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine


    Harry Caray was a larger-than-life personality in the broadcast booth and in his personal life. He made his early reputation as the St. Louis Cardinals’ radio announcer but is most remembered for his years in Chicago, first with the White Sox and later with the Cubs, where he cemented his national profile through the WGN cable network. Zminda, veteran sports journalist and a Chicago native, is perfectly situated to track Caray’s tumultuous tenure in the Windy City. As the voice of the White Sox, Caray could be hypercritical of players and management. He and his partner, Jimmy Piersall, while adored by listeners, burned more bridges than a retreating army. Once Caray moved to the Cubs, he became more of a “homer,” building up the team rather than tearing it down, though the frustration in his voice was evident whenever he intoned his signature phrase, describing yet another Cub who “popped it up.” Zminda draws on personal interviews and press accounts to vividly capture Caray’s misadventures, both professionally and personally. Expect significant demand, especially in the Midwest, where Caray is still the standard by which all other baseball announcers are measured.
    — Booklist


    Exhaustively researched and wonderfully written. . . . Some biographers hate their subjects; some adore them. Don Zminda does neither. He is not an advocate. Instead, to use a sports phrase, he is an umpire, calling Harry Caray’s life as he saw it. But better than an umpire, Zminda is a fan, re-creating for readers baseball in the second half of the 20th century when the game changed substantially. The Legendary Harry Caray: Baseball’s Greatest Salesman is a great baseball book. This fan is happy to include it in his baseball collection.
    — Illinois Times


    The Legendary Harry. . . portrays Caray as shrewd enough to recognize that broadcasting as a fan meant occasionally expressing a fan’s frustrations. “I started ripping everybody in sight,” he said of his early career. “It was a calculated thing to make people know you’re there. And it worked.”
    — Literary Review Of Canada


    Zminda’s book is not only a fine biography of a “larger than life” man, it’s also a fascinating history of baseball and broadcasting in Chicago in the 1970s and 1980s. If you lived through those years like I did, the book will bring back many fond memories. If you didn’t, the book is worth reading to understand how a man born in St. Louis and once tightly identified with the Cardinals wound up with a statue outside Wrigley Field.
    — Bleed Cubbie Blue


    The work Zminda puts into this is impressive and far exceeds anything done in a journalistic fashion on Caray’s career — this isn’t something meant to make readers feel warm and fuzzy.
    — Tom Hoffarth's "The Drill"


    Harry Caray springs to life, thanks to Don Zminda’s meticulous research. Caray’s artistry and his personal flaws are under Zminda’s microscope, and the reader benefits from this rare analysis of one of broadcasting’s most controversial characters.
    — Bill Brown, veteran MLB broadcaster


    Zminda’s book on Harry Caray fully captures the bluster, color, and brilliance of baseball’s raspy-throated clown prince.
    — Chris Erskine, columnist, Los Angeles Times


    Don Zminda’s deep dive into Harry Caray’s amazing life and broadcasting career is a must-read for baseball fans of every generation. Caray was intimately linked to no less than three big league franchises—the St. Louis Cardinals and both Chicago franchises, most notably the Cubs, with whom he became a national TV treasure. It’s a wild and riotous ride with tons of laughs, iconic moments, and yes, beer.
    — Len Kasper, play-by-play announcer, Chicago Cubs


    If I were asked what all-time baseball announcer most loved the pastime, I would almost surely answer Harry Caray, its irrepressible, incorrigible, unforgettable Falstaff behind the microphone. Don Zminda shows why, as was once said of Bill Veeck, Harry made of baseball a Carnival, “every day a Mardi Gras, and every fan a King."
    — Curt Smith, author, Voices of The Game: The Acclaimed Chronicle of Baseball Radio and Television Broadcasting


    Harry Carabina, as he revealed on my nationally syndicated Talking Baseball television show (I had never met him before he walked into the studio), sure worked his way up from selling newspapers on the streets of St. Louis as a boy. You gotta love a guy who says, “I sing ‘Take Me Out To the Ballgame’ because it’s the only song I know the words to.”
    — Ed Randall, host of “Ed Randall’s Talking Baseball” on WFAN Sports Radio and “Remember When” on SiriusXM


    Harry Caray’s life could be and should be the basis for a major motion picture. And when that happens, this is the book that should be used for the source material. It’s an insightful, well-researched, at times hilarious and frank look at the man, the myth, the mistakes, the madness and the magnificence of this one-of-a-kind legend.
    — Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times and WGN radio


    There was no one in baseball quite like Harry Caray. And now, through Don’s words, we get to know the storyteller, character, and brutally honest force of nature behind the seventh-inning stretch and Will Ferrell impression. It might be … it could be … it is a joy to read.
    — Joe Posnanski, national columnist, The Athletic


Features
Features
  • 4/2/19, Daily Herald: A Cubs baseball roundup "Plenty of appealing book choices for Cubs and White Sox fans this spring" by Bruce Miles included the book. Link: https://www.dailyherald.com/sports/20190402/plenty-of-appealing-book-choices-for-cubs-and-white-sox-fans-this-spring

    4/15/19: Author Don Zminda interviewed by WBBM Newsradio Chicago about book topic: “New Book Looks Back On Harry Caray's Life”
    Link: https://wbbm780.radio.com/new-book-harry-caray-life-baseball-broadcaster


    4/28/19: Author Don Zminda interviewed by WGN Radio in Chicago.
    Link: https://wgnradio.com/2019/04/28/the-legendary-harry-caray-baseballs-greatest-salesman/


    5/2/2019: Check out the Chicago Tribune's book feature "7 things we learned from a new Harry Caray book that tries to separate fact from legend" Link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/baseball/cubs/ct-spt-cb-cubs-white-sox-harry-caray-book-20190502-story.html

    5/17/19: Author shared little-known facts about Harry Caray with Lakeshore Public Radio.
    Link: https://www.lakeshorepublicradio.org/post/new-book-reveals-little-known-facts-about-harry-carey#stream/0


    5/20/19: Author Don Zminda was the guest on the 200th episode of the podcast "Baseball by the Book." Listen here: https://baseballbythebook.libsyn.com/episode-200-the-legendary-harry-caray

    5/23/19: Author Don Zminda shares stories from Harry's life with Holy Cow! A Cubs Podcast.
    Link: https://soundcloud.com/sean-holland-657648616/holy-cow-a-cubs-podcast-episode-52-don-zminda


    5/29/19: Author Don Zminda discussed the legend Harry Caray with the Cub's Club 400 podcast.
    Link: https://club400radio.podbean.com/


    6/24/19: Watch Don Zminda speak with the hosts of Fox 32 News Chicago about Caray's legacy.
    Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx3UzDHZauk


    7/29/19: Listen to Don Zminda talk all things Harry Caray with the hosts of WGN Radio's "Bill and Wendy Show." Link: https://wgnradio.com/2019/07/29/don-zmindas-new-book-offers-insights-into-the-legendary-life-of-harry-caray/

    8/2/19: Watch Don Zminda share tales from the book on PBS Chicago's "Chicago Tonight."

    Link: https://video.wttw.com/video/remarkable-life-legendary-harry-caray-fba03n/

    4/7/2021: Don’s book was mentioned in this article written for the Chicago Tribune which talked about the start of Harry Caray’s start with the Chicago White Sox.

    Link: https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/white-sox/ct-cb-chicago-white-sox-harry-caray-debut-20210407-os2sd3huobd6rbc65346ctnjfi-story.html



    4/26/21: Don wrote an article about Harry Caray’s debut as the announcer for the Chicago White Sox.

    Link: https://www.baseballprospectus.com/news/article/66415/harry-on-the-south-side-1971-81-booze-broads-baseball-and-bulls/



    8/24/22, Pandemic Baseball Book Club: Don Zminda is interviewed about the book.

    Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBm_HVAF_w0



Awards
Awards
  • • Long-listed, CASEY Award: Best Baseball Book of the Year (Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine, 2019)

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