in the 1950’s. I know he had worked with Harry Caray once before early in his career before they were “reunited” with the Cubs in 1982, because Milo already had an axe to grind with Harry prior to Harry getting the job that was supposedly promised to Milo by Bill Wrigley. But after Wrigley sold out, the Trib went out and got Harry from the Sox to replace Brickhouse, which was when Milo’s feelings toward Harry went from bitter to all-out hatred. Even though Milo still had the job as play-by-play radio voice of the Cubs, he wanted the TV gig, and eventually left when he saw that Harry had the WGN-TV job for life.

Supposedly Milo claimed in his autobiography that Harry Caray got him fired twice, but nothing could be further from the truth. Milo was not fired from the Cubs, at least when he left after the 1984 season. He left voluntarily when he saw that the TV play-by-play job was not going to open up any time soon.

My guess on the exact years would be ‘55-’57. As you may know, he also was on ‘CFL with Bob Elson for the Sox in the early ’60’s. IIRC, he replaced Ralph Kiner in ’62. Ralph was Santo-bad as a radio announcer, but his goofiness has worked well for the Mets since ’62.