""I am shocked in many ways. I didn't think this was coming right now," Buck said. "I was saying to the group that called to tell me that my best memory of my father as a Major League Baseball broadcaster was in 1987 in Cooperstown, New York, and what it meant to him, what it meant to our family to see him get the award. To see the joy and the pride that he had for what he had done.""
""I was lucky to call Jack Buck my dad and my best friend. I'm lucky that I'm Carol Buck's son. I tend to downplay awards and what have you because of always feeling like I had a leg up at the start of my career and I did. I'm the first to admit it. But I am happy that when I was a kid I paid attention and I wanted to be with him. I think"
Joe Buck, recently known as the voice of ESPN's Monday Night Football, received the Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting and is the 50th winner. He and his father Jack Buck become the only father-son duo to win the honor. Joe Buck will receive the award during the Hall's July 25, 2026 awards presentation in Cooperstown and at 56 is the second-youngest recipient. Buck began his career calling Triple-A Louisville Redbirds games, joined Cardinals broadcasts with his father in 1991, and worked those broadcasts through 2007. Jack Buck received the Frick Award in 1987 and died in June 2002 at age 77.
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