The son of legendary baseball broadcaster Jack Buck and the grandson of legendary baseball broadcaster Harry Caray will call a St. Louis Cardinals game together on Bally Sports Midwest on May 24. Joe Buck will be a guest alongside television play-by-play voice Chip Caray and the two will work together calling a St. Louis Cardinals game, just as their father and grandfather did over fifty years ago. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch was first with the news.
Jack Buck called Cardinals games for 47 years, starting in 1954. Harry Caray had his longest tenure with any baseball team when he spent 25 seasons calling Cardinals games, starting in 1945. For 15 seasons they overlapped and as Chip Caray said to the Post-Dispatch, “…our families are so intertwined in the history of the Cardinals.”
During the period Harry Caray and Jack Buck worked together, the Cardinals appeared in the World Series three times and won it twice.
Beginning in 1991, Joe Buck spent parts of 16 seasons in the booth for the Cardinals before concentrating solely on his national work with FOX Sports. Buck has not done a baseball broadcast since the end of the 2021 World Series. Chip Caray is now in his second season as the voice of the Cardinals after two decades with the Atlanta Braves.
“I think it will be a blast,” Buck told the paper.
