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Coming from St. Louis this week, on this week’s ‘Not My Job’ segment of the NPR quiz show Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the guest contestant is sportscaster Chip Caray – son of the late sportscaster Skip Caray and grandson of Hall of Fame sportscasting legend Harry Caray.   (The “other city” that Harry Caray broadcast in, which host Peter Sagal doesn’t name since it and St. Louis are sports rivals, is of course Chicago – where he announced for both the White Sox and more famously, the Cubs.). Left out, too, is that, although Chip currently does play-by-play for the St. Louis Cardinals, he was previously the announcer for the Chicago Cubs for seven years.  He had been hired to be in the booth alongside his grandfather, but Harry sadly passed away during the off-season.  So, Chip took over the job. When he left to go to Atlanta, it was to work in the book with his father.  His conversation with Sagal is fun of fun stories, told with the verve you would expect from a sportscaster – including doing a sort-of Harry Caray impression as he tells one “pure Harry” true story about his grandfather when announcing for the Cubs.  (No, I didn’t hear the event when it happened live, but I’ve heard it told, as a part of Chicago sports lore.)
 
This is the full Wait, Wait… broadcast, but you can jump directly to the “Not My Job” segment, it starts around the 20:15 mark