Joe Buck
Early life and education
Buck was born in St. Petersburg, Florida and raised in the St. Louis area, where he attended St. Louis Country Day School. He began his broadcasting career in 1989 while he was an undergraduate at Indiana University Bloomington.
Before Fox
Buck continued to call Cardinals games after being hired by Fox Sports, initially with his father on KMOX and later on FSN Midwest television. As his network duties increased, however, his local workload shrank, and before the (/wiki/2008St.LouisCardinalsseason) season, it was announced that he would no longer be calling Cardinals telecasts for FSN Midwest. This marked the first time since (/wiki/1960St.LouisCardinalsseason) that a member of the Buck family was not part of the team's broadcasting crew.
Hiring at Fox
In (/wiki/1994NFLseason), Buck was hired by Fox, and at the age of 25 became the youngest man ever to announce a regular slate of National Football League (NFL) games on network television.
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