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While reading from a promo for the Cardinals’ Disability Pride Night on July 10, broadcaster Chip Caray began describing the hat that fans with a theme ticket will receive. It features the team’s name in braille on the brim and, incorporated into the hat’s STL logo, the Disability Pride Flag. Caray mispronounced the final word before instantly correcting himself and finishing the promo.

A half minute of ballpark ambient noise from the crowd and game followed, and the call resumed with color analyst and former pitcher Brad Thompson commenting on a high fastball.

“It was an unintentional misspeak while reading a promo, and he immediately corrected himself,� a Cardinals spokesperson told the Post-Dispatch. “His integrity throughout a long career speaks to his character. While unintentional and no offense was intended, it’s unfortunate and we apologize to anyone who was offended.

“Knowing Chip, I am sure he is as upset as anyone.�

A spokesman for FanDuel Sports Network declined to elaborate on what the Cardinals said and declined comment on Caray’s behalf.

The mistake was not addressed on the air.

Caray has been the Cardinals’ lead television voice since the 2023 season, when he returned to a city where his family has deep roots, especially at the ballpark. A third generation baseball broadcaster and graduate of Parkway West High School, Caray has spent more than 30 years calling games, including time as the lead broadcaster for the Chicago Cubs and also for Atlanta.

The Disability Pride Flag was created in 2019 by writer Ann Magill and it originally included zigzagging colorful stripes over a black background to “represent how people with disabilities have to maneuver around all the barriers they face,� per a history of the flag provided on Columbia Irving Medical Center’s website. The flag was adjusted to diagonal stripes later. Each of the colors has meaning — which the Cardinals detailed in their announcement of the evening. The red stripe is for physical disabilities, gold for neurodiversity, white for invisible or undiagnosed disabilities, blue for emotional or psychiatric, and green for sensory.

The design of the flag is tucked into the Cardinals’ interlocking STL logo on the front of the cap fans will receive. The Cardinals are partnering with Starkloff Disability Institute to — a ºüÀêÊÓƵ-based nonprofit — host the evening and play the Washington Nationals.