Throwback: Watch Harry Caray interview Bill Murray at Wrigley Field's first-ever night game

Always lively, often inflammatory, never boring: Harry Caray would have been 100 years old today. The legendary baseball broadcaster died on February 18, 1998, but his legacy lives on, both through Will Ferrell-inspired impersonations and of course, his eponymous restaurants.

Caray announced the first night game at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, on "8/8/88."

In the booth to help him usher baseball into that new era?

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"This Bud's for you, Bill Murray," Caray said to the actor as they bantered back and forth. Of course. Watch the full interview below. --Sarah Eberspacher