Sports
February 17, 2023
By Nandini Sharma
Tim McCarver, a great broadcaster, collaborated with Joe Buck for a number of years on FOX.
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When Joe Buck heard about McCarver's death on Thursday at the age of 81, he talked about McCarver’s Impact on his life on "The Michael Kay Show".
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Before teaming up with McCarver for the first time in 1996, Buck's well-known father Jack actually called games alongside the former longtime MLB catcher.
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Fortunately, Jack Buck's son had a different working relationship with McCarver than his father had.
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"I could make a baseball point as a 27-year-old no-nothing kid basically, and he would take it in. Maybe argue it, maybe just accept it.” Buck told Michael Kay.
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He added, “When he did that, this young guy (me) had a little more credibility than I had before I started that sentence,"
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He further added, "I owe him so much for being that way with me at a pretty fragile time in my broadcast career."
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McCarver had a long career calling MLB games for NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX, the four main television networks.
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He and Buck were FOX's top baseball broadcasting duo from 1996 until 2013. Also, at various periods in his career, McCarver worked as a local game announcer for the Phillies, Mets, and Yankees.
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