Joe Buck has called 24 World Series, 21 All-Star Games and seven Super Bowls during his broadcasting career. Frank Micelotta / Getty Images
After calling 24 World Series, play-by-play announcer Joe Buck has been named the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s 2026 Ford C. Frick Award winner.
Buck and his father, 1987 Frick Award winner and longtime St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck, are the only father-son duo to win the award.
“It means so much. But even more to my mom and family. My dad going in was the happiest I ever saw him. That was 1987. And now this. It’s surreal,” Buck told The Athletic.
Joe Buck started his major-league broadcasting career by joining his father in the Cardinals’ broadcasting booth in 1991. Three years later, Buck joined Fox Sports and began working as an NFL announcer, then also started doing national baseball broadcasts. He called his first World Series in 1996, again in 1998 and then every year from 2000 through 2021.
Buck, 56, owns one of the most recognizable names — and voices — in professional sports. An eight-time Emmy award winner, he’s also called seven Super Bowls and 21 MLB All-Star Games. The Pro Football Hall of Fame inducted Buck in 2020; he and Jack Buck are also the only father and son to win the Hall’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award.
In 2022, Buck left Fox Sports and joined ESPN as the play-by-play man for “Monday Night Football,” continuing his partnership with color commentator and Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman that began in 2002 on Fox.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame gives the Ford C. Frick Award annually for excellence in baseball broadcasting and will present it to Buck during the HOF induction weekend July 24-27, 2026, in Cooperstown, N.Y.
— Richard Deitsch contributed to this story.