ST. LOUIS — One of the biggest names in broadcasting is returning to the MLB broadcast booth, and it'll be a reunion of legendary broadcasting families.
Joe Buck, the voice of Monday Night Football and former World Series broadcaster, will return to the MLB booth on Friday, May 24 for a matchup between the Cardinals and Cubs. He will join Cardinals broadcaster Chip Caray for pregame starting at 6:30 and first pitch at 7:15.
The Caray-Buck broadcast booth will be a throwback to the 1950s and 60s, when Joe Buck's father Jack and Chip Caray's grandfather Harry called games for the Cardinals Radio Network. Jack and Harry called Cardinals games together on KMOX Radio from 1954-59 and 1961-69, a team press release said.
Joe Buck got his start broadcasting Cardinals games on Fox Sports Midwest and the Cardinals Radio Network from 1991 to 2007.
“I’m excited to bring it back to where it all started for me in the big leagues,” Joe Buck said in a press release. “The Cards are a part of my DNA and it will be fun to be their guy on the air for a night. Chip is a longtime friend, and I am a big fan of his, so to work with him will make it that much better. It’s his booth, and I’m just the guest and that’s how I’ll treat it.”
The Caray broadcasting family is prolific, with Caray being the third generation of baseball broadcasters, and it didn't stop with him. His twin sons, Chris and Stefan, are also baseball broadcasters with the Oakland Athletics and Double-A Amarillo Sod Poodles, the team said in the press release.
“Holy cow, this should be fun,” Chip Caray said in the release. “I’ve known Joe since our days together in the early days with FOX. I grew up listening to his dad, and my kids have grown up listening to him. I’m really looking forward to a night of laughs, stories, and great memories of the guys who made us possible.”
