One of baseball’s most iconic voices will be returning to the diamond for at least one game.
Longtime play-by-play announcer Joe Buck will join Cardinals broadcaster Chip Carey for the May 24 game between St. Louis and the Cubs on Bally Sports Midwest. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The telecast will be a tribute of sorts to Jack Buck (Joe’s father) and Harry Carey (Chip’s grandfather), who worked together in the Cardinals’ booth for 14 years from 1954 to 1968.
This will be Buck’s first baseball broadcast since the 2021 World Series.
Buck spent 26 years as Fox’s top baseball play-by-play announcer, calling the World Series 24 times, including 22 consecutive World Series appearances from 2000 to 2021.
The broadcasting legend will leave Fox for ESPN in 2022, signing a five-year deal with the network to call “Monday Night Football” games and stepping away from the sport he has spent his entire professional career documenting. Ta.
In November 2022, shortly after the World Series in which he was not called up for the first time in more than 20 years, Buck told Sports Illustrated that he was ready for a new challenge.
“I’m ready to move on from that part of my life,” Buck said at the time. “I’ve been broadcasting baseball professionally since I was 19 years old, and I feel like I’ve done everything I can there. If I ever want to go back and attend some games – maybe. But… I don’t have that itch. I love sports. I’m glad I did it. I’m proud of how I did it. There is no desire at this point to keep repeating it over and over again.”
But Buck left the door open to the possibility of returning to his first passion for sports broadcasting.
“If the Cardinals need me or want me to play a game with Chip Carey someday to play back and carry together, maybe I’ll do it just for fun. ” Buck said in an interview.
