The Caray family gets a fourth generation of pro baseball broadcasters

Late this week, the Amarillo Sod Poodles (the Double-A affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks) made a pair of legendary hires. They hired Chris and Stefan Caray to broadcast their games in the 2022 season.

Chris and Stefan are twin brothers, making it the first time that twin brothers will broadcast baseball together in pro baseball history. They also become the fourth generation of the Caray family to broadcast professional baseball games.

The Caray family adds another generation of baseball broadcasters with the twin sons of Atlanta Braves broadcaster Chip Caray

Chris and Stefan Caray are identical twin brothers who are the sons of Atlanta Braves TV broadcaster Chip Caray. The elder Caray, 57, has been broadcasting baseball in the majors on a full-time basis since 1991 with the Seattle Mariners, Chicago Cubs, FOX, TBS, and the Atlanta Braves, where he broadcast games from 1991 through 1992 and again since 2005.

Chip is the son of Skip Caray, who was a broadcaster with the Braves from 1976 until his death in August 2008. The father and son duo worked together from 1991-1992 and again from 2005 through 2008. Chip is also the grandson of Harry Caray, the Hall of Fame broadcaster who broadcast games for the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns (later became the Baltimore Orioles), Oakland A’s, Chicago White Sox, and the Chicago Cubs from 1945 through 1997.

Chip was hired to join the Cubs in late 1997 to work with his grandfather before Harry passed in February 1998.

All three generations came together to broadcast a game together on May 13, 1991, when Skip and Chip’s Braves faced Harry’s Cubs at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

In another odd occurrence, Chip’s brother, Josh Caray, is also a baseball broadcaster as he is the broadcaster for the Rocket City Trash Pandas, the Double-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels. However, with Josh, Chris, and Stefan all being in Double-A, the two teams are not slated to face each other during the regular season.

Additionally, the Sod Poodles are the Double-A affiliate of the D-Backs, who have a new broadcaster from a baseball family themselves. Chris Garagiola (who broadcast games for Double-A Pensacola in 2021) is the new secondary radio broadcaster for the D-Backs. His grandfather, Joe Sr., was a Hall of Fame broadcaster best known for broadcasting NBC’s Game of the Week from the late 1960s until he left NBC after the 1988 World Series.

With Caray twins, they are seniors at the University of Georgia and have broadcast games in the Cape Cod League and at the collegiate level before being hired by Amarillo.

They will replace Sam Levitt, who left the team to join the San Diego Padres as their radio pregame and postgame host and fill-in broadcaster.

There are other broadcast families in baseball including the Bucks, the Garagiolas, the Brennamans, the Kalases, the Johnsons, the Suttons, and more). But most have run through the Atlanta Braves and even some have overlapped (Harry Caray, Jack Buck, and Joe Garagiola, Sr. broadcast games together for St. Louis from 1955 through 1959 and Ernie Johnson, Sr., Ernie Johnson, Jr., Don Sutton, and Skip Caray all broadcast games for the Braves from 1993 through 1996).

However, if either Chris or Stefan make it to the majors, the Caray family will be the first family to have four generations make the majors as broadcasters.