If you grew up in the St. Louis area (or the Midwest) in the '70's/'80's/'90's, Jack Buck was part of your childhood. I, of course, remember all of those calls, but my favorite was when I pointed a cassette recorder microphone at the radio and recorded Lou Brock's 105th stolen base as it happened on 9/10/74. I STILL have that 15-minute recording (!) God Bless You, Jack! You were an even BETTER man than a broadcaster...
No doubt. I’d easily put him ahead of anyone not named Vin Scully. Those two are without a doubt 1 and 2 in the greatest baseball announcers of all time, and no one is even remotely close to them.
@@antonfilms4023 Well said. And I listen to the slobbering Mike Shannon whom the Cardinals continue to employ, and wonder what happened to the standards once demanded for broadcasters. I grew up listening to Jack, Harry Caray and occasionally Bob Costas do Cardinals baseball. The immortal Dan Kelly doing Blues' hockey, the great Bob Starr doing St. Louis Cardinals Football in STL, all on KMOX in STL. Now it's the ill-prepared Shannon, who doesn't know what day it is... And the lazy Chris Kerber doing Blues' hockey. How times have changed.
And his son Joe will be forever be the most cringeworthy baseball sports broadcaster of all time(along with football) But yes, Jack is the GOAT... or co-GOAT with Vin Scully.
In England I was introduced to football by listening to armed forces radio. Jack buck and hank strams commentary is forever imprinted in my memory. Great times. Brilliant brilliant memories. Thank you Jack and Hank.
Joe most certainly doesn't have the passion in sports broadcasting that his father did. He only rose up because of his father's name, not by his own merits.
17 years ago today, he passed away. Jack, wherever you are, you will always be a broadcasting legend and THE voice of the Cardinals. You will always be missed. 😢
If "I don't believe what I just saw!" isn't the greatest announcer call in MLB history, I don't know what is. Truly a class act, and greatly missed. RIP, Jack.
The ironic thing is Vin scully's reaction to that moment is total silence. Just let you soak in the moment compared to the most emotional reaction ever and they're both great.
Man I remember me and my Dad would listen to Jack instead of watching the Cardinals on TV. It wasn't the sound of summer without hearing that man. So glad I grew up around this time!!
I get chill bumps when I hear Jack. I think of my dad and how much he loved Jack and the Cardinals and how much I love Jack and the Cardinals. I miss Jack and my dad.
"Thanks for your time, this time, until next time, so long!!" Jack Buck was/is an icon. He is buried within walking distance of my Father's grave in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery in South St. Louis County.
I remember the 88 world series. I was ten. I was suppose to be sleeping, but I turned the tv back on in my room. I will never forget the call of Kirk Gibson's homerun. There is no doubt in my mind, that's still the greatest call in baseball history. Just amazing. I know a lot of people love his son, but no one tops Jack!
I grew up Listening to Cardinal games with Jack on the radio. He will always be my favorite. What a great knowledge of the game and a wonderful vocabulary
Smith Corks one into right, and it may go! GO CRAZY FOLKS! Growing up in St. Louis in the 80's, and still a big Cardinals fan...that call still gives me chills.
A real St. Louis classic & the best baseball announcer of all times!! We know you were smiling on us when we made the last out. Miss you always-You're a winner!
I may only be 25 years old so I didn't get that much of Jack Buck growing up. My favorite memories of him were the 62nd HR by Mark McGwire and his 9/11 Speech. However I still shed a tear watching those classic calls from the 80s.
His call of Gibson's homer was just as good as Vin's, and that's saying something. I was working and listened to him call the 1988 NLCS - he was terrific. He and Hank Stram were the best football calling duo ever. God Bless Jack Buck.
Obviously none of you are Cardinals fans or St. Louisans. If you were, you would accept Joe Buck as family, just like Jack, Carole, Julie, and Christine. For so many years, we opened our living rooms to Jack. He is family, and his kids are OUR family. Joe is a really good announcer, Jack was a great one.
+Mark Gram well im a adult in life very sucesfull at that i just dnt care for his son.. mmmmmmmmm hes boaring has no nitch to him if he did he might be something but 2 me hes stale
So wonderful. Grew up glued to his broadcasts of the Cardinals. Thanks for making this montage. (By the way, I loved Jack Buck as much for his patient silences on the radio as anything else--he was really an artist with silence. But I get that it's hard to put that across in a montage!)
How come Joe does have not had the style like his dad who would call the game with feeling and words that matched what was being seen like how Summerall did his play by play with football when you were watching and hearing Summerall you knew you were watching one of the great play by play broadcasters.
My favorite call by Buck was a Football call, The Catch in the 81 NFC Championship game..." Montana looking to throw, looking to throw and he throws in the end zone TOUCHDOWN, TOUCHDOWN to Dwight Clark!" Baseball I know was Jack's bread & butter and have to go with the Gibson Home Run in 88
Was never a big baseball fan, so I never heard him announce Card games. Absolutely loved when he did NFL football with, Hank Stram though. IMHO, there has never been nor ever will be, a better tandem than those two. They are broadcasting legends, in every true sense of the word. I really do miss them. R.I.P., gentlemen.
The best ever. I can't watch that without getting watery eyes. It's great the every game is now televised. But, in my youth, you got the game from Jack. I really miss that.
i have no care for the Cardinals, but he is the greatest announcer I ever heard. A homer but doesnt wax poetic like John Sterling, who sucks. I wish his son was half as good as he is.
Jack Buck was my favorite after Dave Neihaus of the Mariners! When Jack called Monday Night Football on CBS radio, I turned off Cosell and his bunch to listen to Buck and Stram! The radio guys are the best!
Nice job on this. You did great work. I was stationed in Italy in 1998 during the McGwire home run chase, and I tuned in the game on AFN, and usually, you'd get the national announcers on the radio, but for whatever reason, they had Jack and Mike's call on the broadcast. What a touch of home that was! It was a game about mid-season where McGwire was ejected early in the game and the fans were throwing things on the field. Jack remained calm and classy the entire time.
Buck's statue dedication was the following day. During his acceptance speech, he asked the fans to applaud the umpires when they walked on the field that day to show them who Cardinal fans really were. The fans, at his behest, gave the umpires a standing ovation. Few can command that level of respect from and entire fan base.
Like most Cardinals fans my age, I grew up with Jack Buck and those monster teams of the 80's. You can't think of guys like Tommy Herr, Willie McGee, Vince Coleman, Terry Pendleton, Joaquin Andujar, and of course The Wizard of OZ without thinking of Jack Buck. The people we listen to on tv and radio form our image of the game of baseball, and none was, or ever will be, as good as Jack Buck. I'm lucky to have grown up listening to Jack.
I remember when he died, all the comments that flooded the radio stations about how he touched people's lives. It was like every person in St. Louis had their own personal Jack Buck story to tell. another sad death more recently was that of Mike Shannon's Wife.
I was at Game 6 in 1991 when Kirby Puckett hit that homerun in the Bottom of the 11th when Jack Buck said "into deep left-center, for Mitchell. And we'll see ya, tomorrow night."
i became a baseball fan when the twins faced the Atlanta braves in game six I didn't know the person who made the call until jack buck died it gives me goosebumps every time I hear that call
He did Monday Night Football for Westwood One Radio Network, and and he had one of the funniest calls of all time. "The Redskins have fumbled! . . . .and somebody recovered!" RIP Mr. Buck. 🙏
Great calls by Jack Buck, but as a Dodger fan, I just cannot accept those images. Painful memories my older family members have told me about the '85 NLCS. Dodgers had the best record in baseball in 1985 and were up 2-0 in the NLCS, but St. Louis came back to win the series 4-2, w/ the Ozzie and Clark HR's off Tom Niedenfuer. My dad told me that the Clark blast was the most painful Dodger HR allowed he's ever experienced. I can equal him in pain, w/ the Matt Stairs HR from the '08 NLCS Game 4.
as a twin fan, i remember hearing jack call the 91 world series and there were some great calls that didn't make this list, mainly kirby's walkoff homer in game 6
Same here - moving as an army brat that summer and on the long car ride. Sat in the hotel parking lot through all of the extras and yelled in the car with my mom and dad. What a memory
Echoing 'machalot'. This is an 8:31 travesty. Game 6 1991--Kirby Puckett's GW HR "...and we'll see ya tomorrow night!" might be the greatest call in the history of sports. It's the only reason I clicked on this clip. Whoever posted/edited this is clueless.
How many big home runs did Tom Niedenfuer give up to blow big games? He gave up 3 different huge home runs to the Cardinals to blow huge games. He was a real goat.
Where can I find that awards speech in its entirety thats at the end of this video. Maaaan...that poem about "turning the radio on" gave me goosebumps.
God I love Jack Buck. I'll never forget his call of the 1991 world series. You wouldn't happen to have his "We'll see you tomorrow night" call of Kirby Puckett's HR in game six in 91 would ya?
Jack,, painted a picture when broadcasting,, just close your eyes and Jack put you in Los Angeles, or Pittsburgh, or Montreal,, Jack Buck .. the voice of the Redbirds!
Jack Buck and Mike Shannon made the baseball games so much fun to listen to. Glad I grew up in the eighties.
Shannon's half-drunk call of Pujols jacking Lidge is hilarious.
If you grew up in the St. Louis area (or the Midwest) in the '70's/'80's/'90's, Jack Buck was part of your childhood. I, of course, remember all of those calls, but my favorite was when I pointed a cassette recorder microphone at the radio and recorded Lou Brock's 105th stolen base as it happened on 9/10/74. I STILL have that 15-minute recording (!) God Bless You, Jack! You were an even BETTER man than a broadcaster...
there will never be another one like him.
Jack Buck will forever be one of the best MLB Baseball and Sports Broadcasters of all-time
No doubt. I’d easily put him ahead of anyone not named Vin Scully. Those two are without a doubt 1 and 2 in the greatest baseball announcers of all time, and no one is even remotely close to them.
@@antonfilms4023 Well said. And I listen to the slobbering Mike Shannon whom the Cardinals continue to employ, and wonder what happened to the standards once demanded for broadcasters.
I grew up listening to Jack, Harry Caray and occasionally Bob Costas do Cardinals baseball. The immortal Dan Kelly doing Blues' hockey, the great Bob Starr doing St. Louis Cardinals Football in STL, all on KMOX in STL.
Now it's the ill-prepared Shannon, who doesn't know what day it is... And the lazy Chris Kerber doing Blues' hockey. How times have changed.
One of? GOAT
And his son Joe will be forever be the most cringeworthy baseball sports broadcaster of all time(along with football) But yes, Jack is the GOAT... or co-GOAT with Vin Scully.
He is the greatest
Love the "Grand Slammmahhh" call. Only Jack Buck could do that!
In England I was introduced to football by listening to armed forces radio.
Jack buck and hank strams commentary is forever imprinted in my memory.
Great times. Brilliant brilliant memories. Thank you Jack and Hank.
You can tell how much he loved this game by his passionate calls......WE MISS YOU JACK!
"And that's a winner!" will always tug on my heartstrings! Jack was the best!
I could listen to Jack Buck call every damn baseball game. Ever. Best Ever. Period.
Yeah right. Just because you like him, doesn't mean he's the best ever.
I grew up listening to Jack Buck. This montage brings many a smile to my face and many a tear to my eye. He was the best.
How the hell does this man stir the imagination so well while his son literally rots your brain when he speaks
Joe most certainly doesn't have the passion in sports broadcasting that his father did. He only rose up because of his father's name, not by his own merits.
@@rjm22nd seriously every call during a football game from Joe is pass.... caught.... name.... yard line... he’s just so formulaic and dull
@@jacobolson6145 Mitchell..........Mitchell........Mitchell........Down to the 25
I'll just leave it at that.
Joe can go Buck himself.
Hey, get me some fresh fries.
17 years ago today, he passed away. Jack, wherever you are, you will always be a broadcasting legend and THE voice of the Cardinals. You will always be missed. 😢
If "I don't believe what I just saw!" isn't the greatest announcer call in MLB history, I don't know what is. Truly a class act, and greatly missed. RIP, Jack.
The ironic thing is Vin scully's reaction to that moment is total silence. Just let you soak in the moment compared to the most emotional reaction ever and they're both great.
Jack Buck was pure class.One of my favorite sayings of his was "boo say the fans!" His call of Kirk Gibson's Homer sends chills thru me.Rest well Jack
AND THAT'S A WINNER!
Rest in peace, Jack.
Man I remember me and my Dad would listen to Jack instead of watching the Cardinals on TV. It wasn't the sound of summer without hearing that man. So glad I grew up around this time!!
I get chill bumps when I hear Jack. I think of my dad and how much he loved Jack and the Cardinals and how much I love Jack and the Cardinals.
I miss Jack and my dad.
Like others who have commented, I also grew up with Jack Buck. It was a sad day for me when he died. I will always remember him.
GO CRAZY FOLKS!!! GO CRAZY AND THATS A WINNER!! Man I wish he was still with us. Bucks a classic
Adioooosss! A long blast by Willie McGee! What a call! Best BB announcer ever!
I love Jack Buck. He is my favorite announcer of all time.
"Thanks for your time, this time, until next time, so long!!"
Jack Buck was/is an icon.
He is buried within walking distance of my Father's grave in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery in South St. Louis County.
I too saw Jack on the radio, none better!!! Mr. Buck you are forever a Cardinal!!
To me his all time classic saying is "And we'll see ya tomorrow night" on Kirby
Puckett's game 6 of the 91 World Series Walk off homerun
I remember the 88 world series. I was ten. I was suppose to be sleeping, but I turned the tv back on in my room. I will never forget the call of Kirk Gibson's homerun. There is no doubt in my mind, that's still the greatest call in baseball history. Just amazing. I know a lot of people love his son, but no one tops Jack!
I grew up Listening to Cardinal games with Jack on the radio. He will always be my favorite. What a great knowledge of the game and a wonderful vocabulary
Smith Corks one into right, and it may go! GO CRAZY FOLKS! Growing up in St. Louis in the 80's, and still a big Cardinals fan...that call still gives me chills.
A real St. Louis classic & the best baseball announcer of all times!! We know you were smiling on us when we made the last out. Miss you always-You're a winner!
NEVER will be a better one....thanks so much Jack.
Jack Buck the only guy who could outshine Vin Scully on a call. Where Vins call on Gibsons homer was great Bucks call was even better
I may only be 25 years old so I didn't get that much of Jack Buck growing up. My favorite memories of him were the 62nd HR by Mark McGwire and his 9/11 Speech. However I still shed a tear watching those classic calls from the 80s.
His call of Gibson's homer was just as good as Vin's, and that's saying something. I was working and listened to him call the 1988 NLCS - he was terrific. He and Hank Stram were the best football calling duo ever.
God Bless Jack Buck.
Actually his call of Gibson was 10x better than Vin's... Who practically said nothing. And that's the fact Jack!
2:30. I get chills every time. The fact that he repeats "I don't believe.." twice was so perfect; pure, absolute incredulity.
This is great r.i.p. Jack Buck.
Thanks for uploading this, brings a smile to mine and many faces that love that guy. Jack Buck a true legend!
Jack Buck > His Son
Jack Buck >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> His Son
Yes Eric. And your father > You!
@@garysolorzano3216 Spot the Joe Buck butthurt fanboy. I hope you and the other one are well.
Makes ya wish Jack had encouraged his son to pursue a career in Rock.
Obviously none of you are Cardinals fans or St. Louisans. If you were, you would accept Joe Buck as family, just like Jack, Carole, Julie, and Christine. For so many years, we opened our living rooms to Jack. He is family, and his kids are OUR family. Joe is a really good announcer, Jack was a great one.
As a kid, I had many a late night with my transistor radio. And been a Cardinals fan all my life. Would like this 100 times, if I could!
His Gibson call was, to me, the best of all time
I miss Jack Buck
I forgot about the COMMERCIALS!!! They had us laughing so much back then and still do! Nice job!!!!
its jack buck and vin scully...thats all you could ever need to call a game..
I have many memories of riding in the car with my dad, listening to Jack Buck during the Cardinals games!!
One of the best announcers of all-time! RIP Jack
Jack Buck
A class act
You are sorely missed.
OH!!! The Cardinals games remind me so much of my dad-God rest his soul ❤️
Kirk Gibson in the 1988 World Series at 2:20 -- I'll never forget it!
If only his son was this good
I grew up on Jack Buck on those summer nights growing up in Memphis following my beloved Cardinals. Simply the best.
jack buck did a lot of great things. having a son named joe was not one of them
Agree
GOONIE What a terrible thing to say.
My guess is once you grow up you'll realize how ridiculous the statement really is.
+Mark Gram well im a adult in life very sucesfull at that
i just dnt care for his son..
mmmmmmmmm
hes boaring has no nitch to him if he did he might be something but 2 me hes stale
+Mark Gram What does being a grown up have to do with not liking Joe Buck?
Cardinals sure loved seeing Tom Niedenfuer
No kidding. Niedenfeuer can fuck off.
Either both home runs plus Jack Buck's call made it ledgendary
Joe's okay, but Jack's a Legend. :)
Joe is the worst broadcaster ever. Smh
So wonderful. Grew up glued to his broadcasts of the Cardinals. Thanks for making this montage. (By the way, I loved Jack Buck as much for his patient silences on the radio as anything else--he was really an artist with silence. But I get that it's hard to put that across in a montage!)
How come Joe does have not had the style like his dad who would call the game with feeling and words that matched what was being seen like how Summerall did his play by play with football when you were watching and hearing Summerall you knew you were watching one of the great play by play broadcasters.
My favorite call by Buck was a Football call, The Catch in the 81 NFC Championship game..." Montana looking to throw, looking to throw and he throws in the end zone TOUCHDOWN, TOUCHDOWN to Dwight Clark!"
Baseball I know was Jack's bread & butter and have to go with the Gibson Home Run in 88
Was never a big baseball fan, so I never heard him announce Card games. Absolutely loved when he did NFL football with, Hank Stram though. IMHO, there has never been nor ever will be, a better tandem than those two. They are broadcasting legends, in every true sense of the word. I really do miss them. R.I.P., gentlemen.
"I don't believe what I've just saw."...
RIP. Jack.
The best ever. I can't watch that without getting watery eyes. It's great the every game is now televised. But, in my youth, you got the game from Jack. I really miss that.
Jack Buck was absolutely rocking out on the bass!
Jack Buck is the greatest St Louis Cardinals baseball announcer and Joe Buck is just great either on football & baseball like his dad
The only dude i ever heard call joe buck great
Pure class as the cardinals broadcaster in baseball.
2:59 Wow, he didn't even say the play he just said the Twins have Won.....and sounded great.
i have no care for the Cardinals, but he is the greatest announcer I ever heard. A homer but doesnt wax poetic like John Sterling, who sucks. I wish his son was half as good as he is.
It would be easy but Jack is gone forever. Man, show some respect for his son, Joe's not that bad.
Jack Buck... A true gentleman.
Jack Buck was my favorite after Dave Neihaus of the Mariners! When Jack called Monday Night Football on CBS radio, I turned off Cosell and his bunch to listen to Buck and Stram! The radio guys are the best!
Nice job on this. You did great work. I was stationed in Italy in 1998 during the McGwire home run chase, and I tuned in the game on AFN, and usually, you'd get the national announcers on the radio, but for whatever reason, they had Jack and Mike's call on the broadcast. What a touch of home that was! It was a game about mid-season where McGwire was ejected early in the game and the fans were throwing things on the field. Jack remained calm and classy the entire time.
Buck's statue dedication was the following day. During his acceptance speech, he asked the fans to applaud the umpires when they walked on the field that day to show them who Cardinal fans really were. The fans, at his behest, gave the umpires a standing ovation. Few can command that level of respect from and entire fan base.
Jack Buck...awesome
Like most Cardinals fans my age, I grew up with Jack Buck and those monster teams of the 80's. You can't think of guys like Tommy Herr, Willie McGee, Vince Coleman, Terry Pendleton, Joaquin Andujar, and of course The Wizard of OZ without thinking of Jack Buck. The people we listen to on tv and radio form our image of the game of baseball, and none was, or ever will be, as good as Jack Buck. I'm lucky to have grown up listening to Jack.
Steve Zabriskie, Brad Nessler, Jim Nantz, Sean McDonough, Jim Henderson, and Tony Taglavore are part of Jack Buck's Project.
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But I'll always have the Kirk Gibson HR call (although Vin Scully's call was epic too).
I remember when he died, all the comments that flooded the radio stations about how he touched people's lives. It was like every person in St. Louis had their own personal Jack Buck story to tell. another sad death more recently was that of Mike Shannon's Wife.
i can do a perfect impression of "I don't believe what i just saw"
I love to hear it
Amazing. Thank you
Jack was the best
I was at Game 6 in 1991 when Kirby Puckett hit that homerun in the Bottom of the 11th when Jack Buck said "into deep left-center, for Mitchell. And we'll see ya, tomorrow night."
"And we'll see you tomorrow night!"
i became a baseball fan when the twins faced the Atlanta braves in game six I didn't know the person who made the call until jack buck died it gives me goosebumps every time I hear that call
We miss you, Jack. Best ever.
How anyone could dislike this voice is beyond me. Even if you're not a Cardinals fan, he was so entertaining.
He did Monday Night Football for Westwood One Radio Network, and and he had one of the funniest calls of all time. "The Redskins have fumbled! . . . .and somebody recovered!" RIP Mr. Buck. 🙏
Great calls by Jack Buck, but as a Dodger fan, I just cannot accept those images. Painful memories my older family members have told me about the '85 NLCS.
Dodgers had the best record in baseball in 1985 and were up 2-0 in the NLCS, but St. Louis came back to win the series 4-2, w/ the Ozzie and Clark HR's off Tom Niedenfuer. My dad told me that the Clark blast was the most painful Dodger HR allowed he's ever experienced. I can equal him in pain, w/ the Matt Stairs HR from the '08 NLCS Game 4.
as a twin fan, i remember hearing jack call the 91 world series and there were some great calls that didn't make this list, mainly kirby's walkoff homer in game 6
The catch, Puckett's hr, Buckner's error, should've been on here.
greatest announcer of all time
I had never seen that commercial until this montage. Judging from Joe's age in the commercial, I would guess about '96 or '97 - no later.
I know people are going to think I'm full of it BUT I was actually listening to the radio broadcast when Herr hit his Grand Slam. It was great.
Same here - moving as an army brat that summer and on the long car ride. Sat in the hotel parking lot through all of the extras and yelled in the car with my mom and dad. What a memory
I remember the Busch shark commercial like it was yesterday!
Joe Buck couldn't hold his dad's jockstrap.
when I heard him call MM home run it might go it might go it's gone!! and MM huge his son at the plate amazing
The Twins World Series is effin sweet
Echoing 'machalot'. This is an 8:31 travesty. Game 6 1991--Kirby Puckett's GW HR "...and we'll see ya tomorrow night!" might be the greatest call in the history of sports. It's the only reason I clicked on this clip. Whoever posted/edited this is clueless.
How many big home runs did Tom Niedenfuer give up to blow big games? He gave up 3 different huge home runs to the Cardinals to blow huge games. He was a real goat.
Niedenfeur on the bump must make the Cards froth at the mouth, from a Dodger fan.
Best ever
Where can I find that awards speech in its entirety thats at the end of this video.
Maaaan...that poem about "turning the radio on" gave me goosebumps.
phil rizzuto was provincial.....and i loved him
i'm a red sox fan by the way.....
God I love Jack Buck. I'll never forget his call of the 1991 world series. You wouldn't happen to have his "We'll see you tomorrow night" call of Kirby Puckett's HR in game six in 91 would ya?
Jack,, painted a picture when broadcasting,, just close your eyes and Jack put you in Los Angeles, or Pittsburgh, or Montreal,, Jack Buck .. the voice of the Redbirds!
mike shannon is way underatted
Sad news, everyone. As you may or may not have heard, Lou Brock died on Sunday. After nearly two decades, he and Jack are together again.😢