ATLANTA - Atlanta Braves announcer Skip Caray expects to return to the broadcast booth on July 18 after angioplasty to clear an artery. <br>
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The Braves departed Wednesday for a six-game road trip to Montreal and Chicago without Caray, who underwent the procedure on Monday one week after the return of fellow Braves broadcaster Don Sutton following surgery to remove a cancerous kidney. <br>
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Caray credited Sutton for his decision to have a body scan Friday that revealed an artery that was 96 percent blocked, putting him at risk for a heart attack. The growth on Sutton kidney was detected through a body scan. <br>
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``I owe Don a glass of wine, because this wouldn't have been discovered until after the season,'' Caray told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. <br>
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The angioplasty, in which a tiny balloon is inflated in the artery to open blood flow, was performed by Dr. Charles Wickliffe at Piedmont Hospital. <br>
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Caray, son of the late Chicago Cubs' broadcaster Harry Caray, is in his 27th season in the Braves' booth. He said he planned to return to work for a home game against the Florida Marlins next Thursday.
