When a 27-year-old Joe Buck walked into the 1996 World Series booth at the old Yankee Stadium, he was viewed as the ultimate nepo baby before the term was even born.
The son of the legendary play-by-player, Jack Buck, Joe grew up in ballparks and made his full-time major league debut at 21, calling his dad’s team, the St. Louis Cardinals. Starting on the calls of the Derek Jeter New York Yankees’ dynasty teams, Joe would become the voice of October and sometimes November on Fox for nearly a quarter century, all under the strain of the social media age.
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And then, after 24 World Series, he just stopped.
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