Unless you’re a young person who’s only vaguely acquainted with Chicago Cubs lore, it’s not likely you’re going to learn anything new about Harry Caray from Marquee Sports Network’s “The Mayor of Rush Street.”
This one-hour once-over, which debuted Sunday as a punctuation mark for the opening weekend of the delayed and abbreviated 2020 season, is far too satisfied to evoke “I remember that” from viewers rather than “That’s interesting.”
This was a guy who was nearly killed in 1968 when he was hit by a car in St. Louis, and the slick but insubstantial special is too busy talking up Caray’s drinking, getting celebrity remembrances and interviewing his old barber to even mention it in passing.