PHOTOS: Remembering Jack Buck

That was the summer he painted our fence in the backyard. He was an awful painter haha.

Buck started broadcasting Cardinals games for KMOX radio in 1954, teaming with Harry Caray, Milo Hamilton (1954), and Joe Garagiola (from 1955). Buck was dropped from the Cardinals booth in 1959 to make room for Buddy Blattner; the following year, he called Saturday Game of the Week telecasts for ABC. Buck was re-hired by the Cardinals in 1961 after Blattner departed; Garagiola left the following year, leaving Caray and Buck as the team’s broadcast voices through 1969.After Caray was fired by the Cardinals following the 1969 season, Buck ascended to the team’s lead play-by-play role. (Oddly enough, 1969 was also the year that Jack Buck divorced his first wife [March 1969] Alyce Larson – who he had married in 1948 and had six children with – and married his second wife [March 1969] Carole Lintzenich, who gave birth to their son Joe Buck in the same year, April 1969).Buck teamed with ex-Yankees and Pirates announcer Jim Woods in 1970–71. In 1972, retired Cardinals third baseman Mike Shannon joined Buck in the broadcast booth, beginning a 28-year partnership.