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Where's Harry?: Steve Stone Remembers His Years With Harry Caray
When legendary Chicago Cubs' broadcaster Harry Caray passed away in February of 1998, thousands of baseball fans mourned the loss. In Where's Harry?, Steve Stone pays tribute to one of baseball's biggest legends never to take the field, remembering the unique baseball commentator who was also the game's biggest fan.
232 pages, Paperback
First published January 25, 1999
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October 13, 2025
This is a fitting tribute to a larger-than-life personality. For people of a certain age, weekday afternoons at 1:20 meant the Cubs game was starting on WGN. Though never a Cubs fan, those games were a welcome respite from the heat, where my friends and I had been playing since earlier that morning. Harry and Steve became "comfort television" for me. It was something to have on to remind you that it was summer and that baseball was a beautiful way to spend it. After 25 years as Harry's straight man, Steve Stone does a tremendous job recounting many of the countless stories and offers a peek inside the booth as well as offering insight into the life of a legend. This is summer reading at its finest, as were games featuring Harry Caray, Steve Stone, and director Arne Harris.
August 18, 2023
Harry Caray, the Chicago Cubs, super station WGN, and day baseball was the staple TV viewing at our home in the early *0's thru the 90's.; seemingly making Harry one of the family. Reading the book brought back so many memories, i.e. watching games with my 90 yr old father and my young sons together at the assisted living, coming home from an exhausting day at work and flopping in my chair to catch the last three innings of a the Cub game and listening to Harry's wrap up. Steve Stone does an excellent job with his memories in telling the life story of Harry.
October 25, 2021
I grew up as a White Sox fan listening to Harry. He also signed one of my scorecards at old Comiskey Park. Some of Steve Stone's stories literally had me laughing out loud, and this book also provided an insight into Harry's character. That said, there was a good bit of redundancy. Fir example, Steve wrote that his relationship with Harry was like a marriage, and he wrote this several times. I understood the first time.
July 6, 2021
If you want a fun peek into Harry, this is a great book to see him from someone that sat next to him for 15 years. The book jumps around a lot, but nonetheless it shows just how beloved Harry was in Chicago. Mayor of Rush St! I miss guys like him. Kind and generous, but complicated.
Highly recommend
Highly recommend
July 23, 2018
I was laughing out loud with tears in my eyes. I loved this collection of short stories about Steve Stone (the best color man in the business for my money) and Harry Caray (the loveable voice of the Cubs by the time I knew him). This really brought me back to childhood.
March 4, 2018
I laughed so hard I cried! Many more than 5 stars!!
May 30, 2020
This was a fun book to read.
October 18, 2023
This is his broadcast partner Srteve Stone's reminiscences. It is filled with Harry Caray lore, an American original.
October 21, 2022
This was a very difficult book to rate. I’ve been a Harry Caray fan for decades. I was born into a mildly St. Louis Cardinals-leaning household because of my Southern Illinois-born dad, but I grew up in Northern Illinois in an area where the local station was a member of the Cubs TV Network. I was a youth who rebelled when doing so didn’t have high costs, so I became a Cubs fan. And so I was introduced to Harry Caray, and found him a great voice of the fan. His disdain when a Cub hitter popped up a pitch with runners on expressed the same feelings I was having as a fan. I can still hear Harry’s voice saying “Pahhhpt it up” with disgust. So I was hoping to read some interesting anecdotes about Harry that I hadn’t heard.
Steve Stone brings the heat, er, these kinds of hilarious anecdotes of Harry representing the fan. And they are good. I found myself laughing quite often while reading this in doctors offices and coffee shops where laughing is unexpected and out of place. Steve goes beyond my expectations, by also analyzing Harry the media image expert. Behind the scenes, Stone relates that Harry focused a lot on putting on a good show. He did the work to make this happen. It is quite an interesting business bio, most all through first hand experiences by Stone. These kinds of stories burnished my regard for Caray.
But Stone began the book with many anecdotes where he repeats how much he liked and appreciated Caray, but then describes the ways that Haray was impossible to work with, was a control freak, ignored other people, said he’d do something then change his mind, that kind of thing. Stone keeps repeating that he loved and respected Harry, but by the stories he’s telling, you feel that he really felt quite the opposite. Stone compares his career with Caray to a marriage, with good and bad times. Through most of the book, it felt like Stone was a disrespected spouse getting even by “setting the story straight” after their spouse died. This gave me a lot to think about as a Caray and as a Stone fan (and as a husband, but let’s not talk about that). In the last few chapters of the book Stone had a very different voice. It was like that spouse reminiscing about the bad times realized that overall it wasn’t such a bad relationship. Stone ends the book with a very positive take on Caray, where when he says they had a good relationship, with respect, you felt that Stone meant it, unlike earlier in the book.
Overall, Stone provides a more complex take on Caray than I expected from a book with this goofy title. In some ways, Harry fell in my esteem as a broadcaster voice of the fan. But in the end, you see that he was just more complex than his image, and that’s what you should expect from any larger than life character. I wasn’t expecting a philosophical discourse on relationships. I really enjoyed this.
Steve Stone brings the heat, er, these kinds of hilarious anecdotes of Harry representing the fan. And they are good. I found myself laughing quite often while reading this in doctors offices and coffee shops where laughing is unexpected and out of place. Steve goes beyond my expectations, by also analyzing Harry the media image expert. Behind the scenes, Stone relates that Harry focused a lot on putting on a good show. He did the work to make this happen. It is quite an interesting business bio, most all through first hand experiences by Stone. These kinds of stories burnished my regard for Caray.
But Stone began the book with many anecdotes where he repeats how much he liked and appreciated Caray, but then describes the ways that Haray was impossible to work with, was a control freak, ignored other people, said he’d do something then change his mind, that kind of thing. Stone keeps repeating that he loved and respected Harry, but by the stories he’s telling, you feel that he really felt quite the opposite. Stone compares his career with Caray to a marriage, with good and bad times. Through most of the book, it felt like Stone was a disrespected spouse getting even by “setting the story straight” after their spouse died. This gave me a lot to think about as a Caray and as a Stone fan (and as a husband, but let’s not talk about that). In the last few chapters of the book Stone had a very different voice. It was like that spouse reminiscing about the bad times realized that overall it wasn’t such a bad relationship. Stone ends the book with a very positive take on Caray, where when he says they had a good relationship, with respect, you felt that Stone meant it, unlike earlier in the book.
Overall, Stone provides a more complex take on Caray than I expected from a book with this goofy title. In some ways, Harry fell in my esteem as a broadcaster voice of the fan. But in the end, you see that he was just more complex than his image, and that’s what you should expect from any larger than life character. I wasn’t expecting a philosophical discourse on relationships. I really enjoyed this.
September 28, 2015
Not a very well written book in literary terms, but a lot of fun if you grew up watching Harry and Steve call Cubs games in the '80's and '90's. Steve Stone shares a collection of stories and memories about Harry. I appreciated that Steve did not try and sugar coat Harry's shortcomings but still showed the reverence he deserved.
February 6, 2008
RIP, Harry.
July 18, 2013
Brought back lots of memories watching of Harry and Steve on WGN. A good broadcasting team and a good quick read.
February 3, 2016
I met Harry at at sports function once. He didn't stay still for more than a minute. Treated us all as best friends.
September 11, 2008
Nice beach read. Made me laugh.
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