Former Detroit Tigers broadcaster Paul Carey died tonight in his Rochester home. He was 88.
He had been in hospice care for about six weeks according to his wife, Nancy. He died of complications from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and heart disease.
Carey retired in 1991 after 19 years broadcasting Tigers games with Ernie Harwell. He also worked at WJR from 1956 to 1992.
“The team of Ernie and Paul was, such a great team,” current Tigers play-by-play radio announcer Dan Dickerson told the Free Press.
“I think the thing I took away from listening to those broadcasts, just the way they called a really good game.