ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - Former FOX baseball commentator, Cardinals broadcaster and St. Louis-native Joe Buck has a chance to join his father in immortality in Cooperstown, New York.
Buck was announced as one of the ten finalists for the Ford C. Frick Award, which honors broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball"
Alongside Buck who have a chance to win the award are Joe Castiglione, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Tom Hamilton, Ernie Johnson Sr., Ken Korach, Mike Krukow, Duane Kuiper and Dan Shulman.
Buck began his broadcasting career calling games for then-Cardinals affiliate Louisville Cardinals in 1989. After a brief stint as a reporter for KMOV, Buck joined KMOX to call Cardinals games, originally filling in whenever his father Jack would do national TV duties. Buck would continue Cardinals games for 17 and a half seasons before leaving in 2008 to focus solely on national broadcasting.
Alongside calling Cardinals games, Buck joined then-startup Fox Sports in 1994 to call NFL games, becoming the youngest broadcaster ever to call NFL games. Buck presence at FOX would only go up from there, where he would also the lead broadcaster for FOX's MLB Baseball coverage, mostly paired up with former Cardinals catcher Tim McCarver.
During Bucks time with FOX, he called 24 World Series, 21 All Star Games and moments like Mark McGwire breaking Roger Maris's home run record in 1996.
If Buck wins, he would join his father Jack, Harry Carey and Bob Costas among previous winners of the Ford C. Frick Award with St. Louis ties.
Final voting for the 2024 Frick Award will be conducted by an electorate comprised of the 12 living Frick Award recipients and three broadcast historians/columnists.
