Chris Caray has been hired as a television play-by-play announcer for the Oakland Athletics, becoming a fourth-generation MLB broadcaster, NBC Sports California announced Tuesday.
Caray’s father, Chip, is the television play-by-play voice for the St. Louis Cardinals. Chris’s grandfather, Skip, called games for the Atlanta Braves for 32 years. Finally, his great-grandfather Harry, was a winner of the Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.
Most recently, Chris Caray, along with his identical twin brother, Stefan, was a play-by-play announcer for the Amarillo Sod Poodles, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Double-A affiliate, and the Arizona Fall League. He joins Jenny Cavnar in the booth, who was hired by the Athletics last week as the first woman to become a primary play-by-play announcer in MLB history.
