Joe Buck To Be Honored With Ford C Frick Award

Joe Buck

Joe Buck, who has called a record 24 World Series, has been named the 2026 recipient of the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s Ford C. Frick Award for excellence in baseball broadcasting.

Buck and his late father, Jack—the legendary St. Louis Cardinals voice and 1987 Frick Award winner—become the only father-son duo in history to claim the honor.

“It means so much. But even more to my mom and family,” Buck told The Athletic. “My dad going in was the happiest I ever saw him. That was 1987. And now this. It’s surreal.”

Jack and Joe Buck

Buck began his big-league career alongside his father in the Cardinals booth in 1991. He joined Fox Sports in 1994, added NFL play-by-play duties, and called his first World Series in 1996 (followed by 1998 and every Fall Classic from 2000 through 2021).

The 56-year-old Buck, an eight-time Emmy winner, is one of the most recognizable voices in American sports. He has also broadcast seven Super Bowls and 21 MLB All-Star Games. In 2020 he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, making he and Jack the only father-son pair to earn that institution’s Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award as well.

Since 2022, Buck has served as the voice of ESPN’s Monday Night Football, continuing the highly regarded partnership with Troy Aikman that began at Fox two decades earlier.

The Ford C. Frick Award will be formally presented to Buck during Hall of Fame induction weekend, July 24-27, 2026, in Cooperstown, New York.