A legend passed away this weekend. Skip Caray the ever present voice of the Atlanta Braves, and son of the famous Harry Caray, passed away in his sleep on Sunday, he was 68. Caray began his Braves Career in 1976 with Pete Van Wieren broadcasting to the country, “America’s Team” every game during the summer.

I can remember growing up listening to Caray and Van Wieren calling the games, and their elation in 91 as the Braves won what would be the first of 13 division titles and while this year, he was only calling the home games due to his health, it was still reassuring to hear his voice over the airwaves (despite a loosing record) most nights.

Skip will most certainly be missed, but never forgotten as his son Chip has been calling the games for a while now (I remember when Chip started, that it sounded like the two of them had so much fun working together). An interesting thing is that Caray got started in Atlanta calling Hawks games when the Hawks moved from St. Louis to the A-town.

He would have been 69 on August 12th. Skip, we’ll miss you!