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That’s Amaury News and Commentary: National Baseball Broadcaster Joe Buck was awarded the Ford C. Frick Award

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The former St Louis Cardinals play by play voice Jack Buck (left) and Fox Sports play by play voice Joe Buck sit in the St Louis Cardinals broadcast booth on Fathers Day June 18, 1995 (AP News file photo)

National Baseball Broadcaster Joe Buck was awarded the Ford C. Frick Award

That’s Amaury News and Commentary

By Amaury Pi-González

The Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting was won today by Joe Buck, of ESPN Sports, who calls Major League games for the sports network. He joins his father, Jack Buck, who won the award in 1987and who was the beloved “Voice of the St. Louis Cardinals” for nearly 50 years.

I have listened to Joe Buck on ESPN baseball but never met him. I did know his father, Jack. In 1999, during a special ceremony at Candlestick Park, last year the Giants played there. Yours truly and Lon Simmons were co-masters of ceremonies for the No. 30 uniform retirement of Giants great Orlando Cepeda.

Mr. Jack Buck also addressed the crowd during the ceremony. He was a St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster; the Cardinals were in town, and Orlando Cepeda also played for St. Louis. Mr. Buck asked me if he should address the crowd in English or Spanish; he spoke conversational Spanish, but he chose to do it in English.

Mr. Buck, the father, was a much more seasoned broadcaster than his son, Joe, and, in my opinion, a better play-by-play man. Congratulations go out today to his son, Joe Buck for winning this prestigious award.

Joe Buck, son of Jack Buck, today became the first father-son duo of baseball announcers to win the Ford C. Frick Award. National broadcasters are heard across the country and therefore carry more weight when it comes to voting for this award.

For example, Jon Miller, who won this award in 2010, was not only known and heard locally as the Voice of the San Francisco Giants, but was paired with Joe Morgan on ESPN nationwide telecasts in games across the country.

I was rooting for my good friend and pioneer René Cardenas, the first to broadcast for an MLB club in Spanish in 1958 with the Dodgers, before Jaime Jarrin (who won in 1998), to win it this season. I spoke via telephone with Rene today, he told me he understands, but told me he feels he is “totally forgotten”. Cardenas is 95 years young.

Congratulations to Duane Kuiper of the Giants, who was also nominated for this award, which yours truly was proud to be nominated for in 2004.

ESPN pays Major League Baseball over half a billion dollars annually under a deal covering the 2026-2028 season, which includes the MLB TV streaming service.

Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977 ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted in the Bay Area Radio Hall of fame.

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That’s Amaury’s News and Commentary podcast: Former Red and ESPN analyst Joe Morgan memories; Sox mgr Renteria fired; plus more

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The Cincinnati Reds former second baseman Joe Morgan who passed away at 77 on Monday is seen here at the MLB Hall of Fame in Cooperstown during the time he asked the Hall to keep steroid users out of the Hall (file photo from Newsday.com)

On Amaury’s podcast:

#1 Amaury, former Cincinnati Reds second baseman Joe Morgan who had worked as an ESPN analyst with San Francisco Giants announcer Jon Miller who passed away on Monday at 77 was best remembered for his days with the Big Red Machine in the 1970s

#2 Morgan and Miller left Sunday Night Baseball in 2010 and started out his broadcast career with the San Francisco Giants doing analysis before moving onto the national scene.

#3 Morgan could be surly at time with reporters at times and was pretty stubborn on his opinions but those were his opinions at the end of his broadcasting careers he received quite a bit of criticism for not moving with the changes in baseball but also fans said he never moved the needle of the way he saw the game and a group of comedy writers formed a group called “Fire Joe Morgan” towards the end of Morgan’s broadcast career because of those on air traits.

#4 The Chicago White Sox and manager Rick Renteria have parted ways after the White Sox had lost the ALWCS to the Oakland A’s 2-1. Renteria finished his tenure with the Sox with a record of 236-309 (.486).

#5 Amaury talk about the how close, how similar do you see how the Tampa Bay Rays and the Houston Astros who should play a number of one run games and maybe some slugfests in this series?

Amaury Pi Gonzalez is the vice president of the Major League Baseball Hispanic Heritage Museum and does News and Commentary podcasts each week at http://www.sportsradioservice.com

MLB The Show Championship Series podcast with Larry Crino: The passing of the Reds Joe Morgan at 77; Rays just get by Astros in game 1

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Former Cincinnati Red second baseman and former ESPN analyst Joe Morgan who passed on Monday due to nerve related conditions at age 77 (intelligencer.com file photo)

On the MLB The Show podcast with Larry:

#1 The passing of former Cincinnati Reds second baseman and former ESPN Sunday Night Baseball analyst Joe Morgan

#2 Tampa Bay Rays and Houston Astros started out playing a pretty close game in game 1 first Larry wanted to ask you about Astros pitcher Framber Valdez who made a no look behind the back pick up of a ball hit back to him by the Rays hitter Kevin Kiermaier for an out talk about a defensive play.

#3 The Houston Astros Jose Altuve hit a leftfield first inning home run to get the Astros on the scoreboard talk about Altuve’s homer you can hear it off the bat that the Astros were going to get on the scoreboard a 388 foot blast.

#4 Larry in watching this game it was close from start to finish after Altuve’s home run the Rays Randy Arozarena whose been key for the Rays getting to this second round of the post season hit a bottom fourth inning solo shot to centerfield to tie the game.

#5 With the score tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the fifth inning Willy Adames scored on a Mike Zunino single to center and the Rays held a 2-1 lead to take game 1 of the ALCS.

Join Larry for the MLB post season podcasts right through the 2020 World Series at http://www.sportsradioservice.com