Editor's note: On Oct. 9, 1969, Cardinal nation was stunned by the firing of broadcaster Harry Caray. Anheuser-Busch said the decision was marketing-based, although rumors swirled that Caray was having an affair with Susan Busch, wife of August Busch III. Busch would later deny the rumors, but in "Under the Influence," a book published in 1991, Caray said: “You couldn’t say I did and I wouldn’t say I didn’t.”
Here was our original coverage of the announcement.
Harry Caray, after 25 years of broadcasting Cardinal baseball games, was job hunting today.
His employer since 1954, Anheuser-Busch, Inc.