He grew up in Chicago (born in 1946), attended Columbia College (left in 1968 to join the military), and returns to the town of his birth often. He's also a huge baseball fan, which begs the question: Is he a Cubs fan or a Sox fan. The Chicago Reader posed that question to him last year and he responded...

"You know, I get asked that a lot. I'm a fan of both teams. I've never understood why I had to hate one or the other. I grew up close enough to Comiskey that I could hear the fireworks after games, but I watched the Cubs on TV."

He went into a little more detail in 2009 to the MLB network...

"I think what drew me to the Cubs is that they did something in the 1950s that was unheard of at the time. They would televise all of their home games. I would come home from school and instead of watching a cartoon or Jerry Springer, I would watch a baseball game. I'm not sure if Mr. Wrigley was cheap and wanted more television dollars, or (was) a visionary, but I think he created a lot of Cubs fans like me who would come home to watch the games. It's hard to realize that in this ESPN era, televised games were pretty rare and a home-televised game was unheard of."

Among his favorite Cubs players: Ron Santo, Ernie Banks, Billy Williams. His favorite year? 1969.

"I tend to remember more odd moments," he once said, "like being in Wrigley with 721 people attending. That was a highlight. I've seen the Cubs on the losing end of a lot of exciting games. To me the most exciting season in Cubs history was 1969 with Leo Durocher. It was such a heartbreaker because it really looked like it was their year (and) they deserved to win. Then this upstart team from New York got so hot and, well, (for the Mets to win) the Cubs had to go in the opposite direction."

Needless to say, Sajak has returned to Wrigley Field numerous times, has thrown out the first pitch, and once even got a chance to sit in the Cubs booth with Harry Caray.

"I met Harry fairly late in his career and he could not have been sweeter," he explained to the MLB network. "It was funny -- as you know, Harry would spend the game talking about 'Misses Johnson' in the hospital in Cedar Rapids while occasionally sprinkling in some play-by-play, and I made a gentle joke about it and he got serious, not defensive, but in an explanatory way. He said that he considered those fans to be very important (saying), "if I can lift their spirits while they are in the hospital (then) I'm more interested in that than what the last pitch was." Like many of the old-time broadcasters, he knew that it was television and fans could see the game, so he did a 'TV show.' (The viewer) saw the game and heard Harry's version of it. Some loved it and some did not, but you cannot deny that baseball is far less rich when it loses people of that generation."

He has since been asked to sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" during the seventh inning stretch, and he dedicated it to Harry.

That's a Cubs fan. That's Pat Sajak.