Cubs-Expos, April 3, 1998 (first 7th inning without Harry Caray)
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- The Cubs' 1998 home opener was unique in that it was the first since Hall of Fame broadcaster Harry Caray passed away Feb. 18 that year. His widow, Dutchie, led the seventh-inning stretch with new TV play-by-play man Chip Caray, Harry's grandson, in the booth. Cubs starter Steve Trachsel had a hard time finishing the inning. He later admitted to being nervous as the crowd stood in anticipation of the third out of the Expos' half. It was a memorable rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." The Cubs won 6-2 en route to sweeping the four-game series. Here's the box score from Baseball Reference: bit.ly/1F3b96t
When I heard 'Amazing Grace', seeing the Caray's hug, the balloons, the chants, I couldn't stop crying.
Harry Caray was more than a broadcaster, he was less than a god, but more than a man. He was a literal icon, one whom will never be duplicated for as long as we live.
And I sincerely hope that come season's end, his soul can finally rest, knowing his beloved Cubs will finally be World Champions.
RIP
Lars Lewis I remember coming home from school to hear Harry Caray do “take me out to the ballgame”. It was never the same when Harry Caray died. Holy Cow
You couldn't say it better. Thank you
I'm so happy the Cubs have won the World Series but man I miss 90s baseball. The presentation was just so cool. The looks the music the broadcasting the home runs. What a great time to watch baseball.
After all these years, still in tears. How Harry would have loved this season. Let's win it for him and Jack and Ronnie and Ernie.
After this game at a bar right outside the stadium my parents met! It’s amazing to see clips of the game that brought them together :)
Still brings tears to my eyes.
I am a die hard Yankee fan. But God damn are Cubs fans fuckin cool. That was the greatest tribute I've ever seen.
I got chills from this... the Cubs are truly a special team, no matter what the year is.
Hell yeah bro...I was just a few rows behind the plate for this game...it was a very special home-opener.
mep41376 Congrats on the win...I'm in AZ and used to watch the Cubs and listen to Harry. How time flies!
phxazjarhead Thanks bro....it's been unreal..!!! 40 years of this for me and a lifetime for my Mom...many others like this...
I was at this game and remembered crying through this. I cried again watching this. Thanks for posting this.
Jim Leon My pleasure. Glad to share it. I was there, too. Crazy how Trachsel had a hard time finishing the seventh anticipating the stretch.
@@ChicagoSportsTVClassics That might have been the case...but when Traschel use to pitch from the stretch it's like being at a long red light 😁
Watching Chip hug her just was the sweetest.
Absolute tearjerker, thanks for this post of Cubbie memorabilia
Cubs did it! World Champions! Hope Harry is having a party in heaven!
Along with Santo, Banks
So great and tear jerking to see the colors of both cubs and white sox flying in the air in memory of Harry.
I miss the 90's
Lifelong Braves fan from the south but growing up I came home from school every afternoon and watched Harry and the Cubs on WGN. Great memories.
I got goosebumps watching the start of this. What a great year for the Cubs! Too bad Harry wasn't around to call it. He would've loved that particular season of 1998.
20 years. Wow. Harry, you will always be missed.
Its been so many years and I still miss Harry. He was a heckuva announcer. Loved the Cubs but was honest about them.
I remember him when he was with the White Sox (I'm a Sox fan), and he was just ad much fun to listen to then as he was with the Cubs.
They just don't make them like him anymore. Thank you, Harry.
Almost 23 years later and I'm getting choked up watching this. That man's voice was the sound of my childhood. We miss you Harry!
I'll turn on the game, even after all these years, and miss hearing his voice.
Finally somebody found this!! I watched this game back in '98 when it aired live. I cried then when they did the Amazing Grace and balloons and did it again here 17 years later. We miss ya Harry! Go Cubs Go!!
It was simply beautiful listening to Mrs. Carey sing “Take Me Out To The Ballgame”. Then to hear “Amazing Grace”, I know that I sure was crying, too. My gosh, it’s been 21 years ago. It seems like yesterday. Bless you, Harry. May he forever Rest In Peace.
I truly believe he watched the 2016 season from heaven, with an ice cold Old Style in his hand.
I have so much respect for the Cubs and their fans. Even at the expense of my Dodgers, it was so awesome to see them break the curse. If only Harry were alive to see it. If this doesn't bring you to tears, then something is wrong with you.
I’m a huge Cubs fan but there are people that don’t care man
Thank you so much for posting this. So moving. Hard to believe this was 15 years ago
Glad you enjoyed it. I was at the game, and it was such an odd feeling. Joy in celebrating Harry, but sadness because Cubs game wouldn't be the same. I have a few other games with Harry at the mic. It'll take some time, but I'll post them. Thanks for subscribing.
Awesome you got to be there!
Jeff Agrest the entire games?
20 years ago now
Alex Patt Wrigley Field misses Harry Caray
I watched this game as a 16 year old kid. 20 years later I still tear up. I grew up watching cubs baseball with my grandfather,I'm sure he had his pbr when they won the world series as he watched from heaven.
Not a Cubs fan, but as a Braves fan I've grown up with the entire Caray family. So great to see a young Chip so happy!
Im such a wimp - I still cry at this
+B H Mch I do too so don't feel bad. I'm just glad almost 20 years later somebody posted it. We still miss ya Harry!!
must be some onions in the room, i still remember this vividly from childhood, I'm sad i only got a couple seasons with caray's voice in my lifetime...
B H Mch I hate the cubs
I understand how hard this was for any Cubs fans, as my team dealt with da loss of Harry Kalas in April 2009. I still think of him since, and then I sometimes think of Harry Karay and how it relates.
RiGuy Hunter 79 Kalas had a fantastic voice. Incredible.
Jeff Agrest it was unforgettable
Я¡Ğцұ Ңцлтё'г At least Harry Kalas got to call the Phillies' World Series win in 2008 just a few short months before his passing....both Harry Kalas & Harry Carey still live on in the memories of fans in Philadelphia & Chicago, respectively....
Я¡Ğцұ Ңцлтё'г Having lived in both the Chicago area and Philadelphia area I know how much the two Harry's meant to baseball fans of both teams. They are still missed today.
Extremely classy Cubbies! So few teams know how to do things like this right.
This randomly came up and so glad I watched. I was about 10th row directly behind home plate because a cousin married an Expo. So I got to see him bat and got to relive the memory. Good times.
After all this time I still get misty eyed watching this. RIP Harry
I remember watching the cubs on WGN back in the day, and hearing Harry Carey say at the beginning of the telecast "Harry Caray with Steve Stone, this is the place to be Holy Cow!" I LOVE my CUBS win lose or draw!!
Me to Joel
Classy. Everything I grew up with expecting from diehard sports community in one video. God Bless, and see you on the other side, Harry.
I wish we still had Chip Carey on the mic.
Nah Len Is better
Crying now, just went to a game and felt so good; Cubs win!
great vid!!! hard to believe it's been 18 yrs since harry passed away :(. he sure made the cubs games fun to watch!
i remember Chicago used to be so great. God bless Us all. Harry, if you are up there, how 'bout calling one for us?
Rob Blackwell with commentary by Ron Santo & Ernie Banks
Here it is almost 20 years later. The Cubbies have made it to the World Series, and I am crying like a baby at work watching this clip. We have lost Harry, Santos, and Banks, but I find comfort in thinking that they are all 3 looking down from Heaven, with a hot dog in one hand and a beer in the other, cheering on the Cubbies tonight.
In heaven with a beer? 🤔 , I with they were here but the reality is that they have no idea that we won the World Series and that's a fact. GoCubsGo.
Wow. Moving. I sure miss him.
From Chicago beautiful days and God bless
We miss you Harry!
I miss that man. I really, really do.
Every time i watch this clip someone is always cutting onions
"Sure as God made green apples, the Cubs are gonna be in a World Series." -- Harry Caray, 1991
I pulled this video up not long after the last out and I cried my eyes out some more. Sure as God made green apples...we did it Harry!!! We did it for you and lot of fans who aren't with us!!
Back when baseball was on Cable Super Stations, forget the Braves, the Cubs were the real America's team
Thank You...I have been looking for this for 5 years...Still get goosebumps.
Kevin Horan Glad you like it. Eventually, I'll post the entire game. But these things take time. Thanks for watching.
Harry & Steve are the CUBS!!!!!
Not a Cubs fan but listening to Harry Caray on radio or tv was entertaining. Miss him.
I remember watching that so well And crying
cubs fans are the best.
That old school feeing Brings back memories.
Never saw this, was still in high school so I missed the early starts. How sweet was this!
Im a dodgers fan but i love harry and i miss him to this day
Missing Chicago Cubs broadcaster, Harry Carray was tough.
But Chicago Cubs winning the 2016 World Series is a good one!
Harry would have wanted it that way!
I know harry is having a blast in Hevan. Heroes will be remember, but legends will never die. Harry for life
Giants fan for life, but some people were bigger than just the game. Harry is one of baseballs immortals
I'm a Mets fan and I just cried like a baby. I know, it's probably because I'm a Mets fan. Fuck it, though. Harry was a god. Chicago is one lucky team to have had him.
Who's here opening day 2020?
This was a public memorial service that just happened to feature baseball.
Thanks for posting.
Jerome Witte Glad you like it. It was a special game.
Yep. I was there. One of my favorite games of all time.
Well,at least Harry wasn't around to try and try and pronounce Mark Grudzielanek! BTW, TOTALLY Sammy's fault. Coming in, he takes that fly ball.
It was April, so he was still getting used to his new-found "juice" that season
I'm not a believer in all that heaven and hell stuff, but IF I happen to be wrong, no doubt Harry is looking down and smiling upon Wrigley Field after the Cubs finally made it to the big show defeating the Dodgers in Game 6, 5-0 on Saturday, October 22, 2016
...on MY birthday! 🤘😋👍
I had one of them in Miami where Steve Stone did about three innings by himself while Harry was off getting a beer or something.
GO CUBS GO
❤ miss you Harry
They did it!
I wonder if the Carey family ever thought they would become "Icons" in Chicago!!!
Is someone cutting onions?
The strike zone was HUGE back then.
Its bigger now
It's happened! The Cubs are going to the World Series! Harry, I know you're smiling Up There!
HARRY! HARRY HARRY! HARRY! HARRY
FP Santengelo is currently the color commentator for the Nationals....the new Expos!
What a year 1998 turned out to be! Sosa cranked out 66 HR's (yeah I know) on his way to NL MVP award and Kerry Wood smoked opposing bats!
Plus I won my fantasy league that year!
Reid Shimizu And he smoked weed too!!! Hahahahaha jk jk
I'm Braves fan .I grew up in Kansas and WGN was better then fox when it came to the Braves playing the Cubs .I can still hear him sing the 7th inning stretch song take me out to the ball game.I'm 42
Man if you find the wild card game vs San Francisco (Henry Rodriguez home run) and fan reaction when we won that game uff 💪💪💪🍿🍿
Ha! Ha! Sammy drops it! Perfect. Harry wouldn’t have wanted it any other way.
That said, maybe Sammy had heard Dutchmen sing before and he was trying to spare the fans. Even Steve didn’t want to answer Chip’s question because he didn’t want to besmirch his own integrity.
The guest conductors have been fun over the years. It was never more emotional than when Dutchie did it for this game. The worst (and funniest) was Ditka!
🥲 I'm sure Harry was celebrating when the Cubbies won in '16 and Skip was celebrating when the Braves won it all earlier this month. They made baseball so much fun. ⚾️ 🧢
I bet even to this day, the Dutchie has to wonder what got her to agree to be the first person to lead the stretch after Harry Caray's death
No way in hell the bleacher bums were going to let her down either. They shook the earth and it was awesome.
If Harry would have been alive for this season, you can damn well bet that TBS/WGN would work out some sort of simucast.
chip really just called his grandma dutchie
When did Len Kasper become the Cubs' play-by-play man?
2005
Yep 2005 when his first season after Chip and Steve left, and he and Bob Brenly became the new tv announcers
staggmovie: These days, Len’s paired up with Jim Deshaies.
Who says there's no crying in baseball..
...and when longtime Cubs broadcaster Jack Brickhouse died later that year in August, he didn't get SHIT as far as any tribute goes!
Only if the Cardinals win another Championship will Harry will be celebrating!
I was not there but when I first went it wasin1989
Steve T while facing Bonds (Just don’t give up a dinger)
I hate the Cubs but I'd hate to be a loyal ass Cubs fan like Harry and never see the Cubs ever win a World Series in my entire lifetime.
Oh, my. Dutchy couldn't carry a tune in a basket.
I hate my friggin’ allergies.
Chip with that coat on lol
Lmao she's drunk too
Griff Oliver She wasn't drunk she was grieving.
This was less than four months after Harry Caray passed.
@@bigeric1030 6 weeks actually.
Classic Kevin Orie was a bust. Like the last out here...
Livingstone was robbed