Harry Christopher “Skip” Caray Jr. moved from St. Louis to Atlanta in the 1960s partly to escape the professional shadow of his father, the iconic and inimitable baseball broadcaster Harry Caray. Over the next four decades, with a style very much his own, Skip Caray became as much the voice of baseball in the Southeast as his father had been in the Midwest.

Caray died in his sleep Sunday at his Atlanta home, the Braves announced. He was 68.

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In recent years, his biggest professional thrills seemed to come from working with family. Oldest son Chip rejoined the Braves broadcast lineup in 2005, often working with the man he called “my dad and my hero.” Youngest son Josh became the radio announcer for the Braves’ minor-league team in Rome in 2007. One Sunday, Caray and his wife of 32 years, Paula, drove from their Atlanta home to Rome so that Skip could join Josh in the booth to call a minor-league game.

“I’ve got to be able to say I’ve worked with all of them,” Skip Caray said that day, referring to his father and both sons. “I just hope I don’t cry, to be honest with you.”

He said he tried to pass along to his broadcaster sons the same lesson his father emphasized to him: “My dad always told me to be honest on the air — and to be yourself. Don’t try to be anybody else.”

Rest In Peace, Skip.

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