Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Caray's job may attract top names

Don't look for NBC-TV's Bob Costas or Tony Kubek as Harry Caray'seventual successor in the prestigious Cub broadcast booth.

Kubek says he probably wouldn't be interested, and if Costaswinds up with any team, it figures to be the Cardinals. He isconsidered heir apparent to Jack Buck.

CBS' new, exclusive contract means NBC and ABC will be out of thebaseball picture beginning in 1990.

And that means a number of big-name voices might be on the marketas candidates to succeed Caray, who, in effect, is on a year-to-yearbasis at WGN.

"I was offered the Cub job before Harry was approached in 1982,"Kubek said from his home in Appleton, Wis. "I was flattered, …

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