Joe Buck

Buck was married to Ann Archambault from 1993 until their divorce in 2011. The couple had two daughters, Natalie and Trudy. On April 12, 2014, Buck married Michelle Beisner, a former Denver Broncos cheerleader who worked as a reporter for NFL Network and ESPN. The couple has twin sons, Blake and Wyatt, and resides in Ladue, Missouri.

In 2011, shortly after calling Super Bowl XLV, Buck suffered nerve damage to his left vocal cord that resulted in vocal paralysis and impaired his ability to raise his voice during broadcasts. While he initially attributed the condition to a virus, Buck revealed in his 2016 autobiography that the paralysis occurred after an anesthesia complication during a hair replacement procedure.

Outside of broadcasting, Buck hosts the annual Joe Buck Classic, a celebrity pro-am golf tournament established in 2000 that has raised millions of dollars to support the imaging center at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He also supports various philanthropic organizations, including the Parkinson's Foundation and City of Hope.

Joseph Francis Buck was born in St. Petersburg, Florida, during the St. Louis Cardinals' spring training, and was raised in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue. He grew up traveling with his father, Hall of Fame sportscaster Jack Buck, frequently spending time inside the Busch Stadium broadcast booth. Buck attended St. Louis Country Day School before enrolling at Indiana University Bloomington to study English and telecommunications.

Buck began his professional broadcasting career in 1989 while still an undergraduate, calling games for the Louisville Redbirds, the Triple-A affiliate of the Cardinals, and reporting for ESPN during the Triple-A All-Star Game. In 1991, he began calling games for the Cardinals on KMOX radio and local television, frequently filling in when his father was away working on national television broadcasts. He also served as the play-by-play announcer for University of Missouri basketball during the 1992-1993 season.

Buck continued to broadcast Cardinals baseball locally through the 2007 season, sharing the booth with his father on KMOX and later working on FSN Midwest telecasts. His departure before the 2008 season brought an end to an era spanning nearly five decades in which a member of the Buck family was part of the Cardinals broadcast crew.

In 1996, Fox Sports named Buck its lead play-by-play voice for Major League Baseball, teaming him with color analyst Tim McCarver. At age 27, Buck became the youngest play-by-play announcer to call a full network World Series broadcast. The partnership with McCarver lasted 18 seasons through 2013, after which Buck was paired with analysts Harold Reynolds, Tom Verducci, and later John Smoltz alongside reporter Ken Rosenthal.

During his 26-year tenure calling baseball for Fox, Buck became the voice of many historic moments. He called Mark McGwire's record-breaking 62nd home run in September 1998, as well as the final outs of historic World Series victories that ended championship droughts for the Boston Red Sox in 2004, the Chicago White Sox in 2005, and the Chicago Cubs in 2016. Between 1996 and 2021, Buck called 24 World Series and 22 MLB All-Star Games, the most of any play-by-play announcer in network television history.

Buck frequently paid on-air homage to his father during key postseason moments. After Jack Buck died in 2002, Joe called the final out of Game 6 of the 2002 World Series with the phrase, "We'll see you tomorrow night," echoing his father's famous call from the 1991 World Series. He invoked the line again during dramatic walk-off moments in the 2004 ALCS and Game 6 of the 2011 World Series.

Buck joined Fox Sports at its launch in 1994, becoming the youngest announcer at age 25 to call a regular slate of NFL games on network television when he paired with analyst Tim Green. In 2002, Buck was elevated to Fox's lead NFL play-by-play announcer, succeeding Pat Summerall. He formed a top broadcast booth with former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman and analyst Cris Collinsworth, eventually becoming a long-running duo with Aikman alongside sideline reporter Erin Andrews.

Buck and Aikman called six Super Bowls together for Fox, including Super Bowl XXXIX, Super Bowl XLII, Super Bowl XLV, Super Bowl XLVIII, Super Bowl LI, and Super Bowl LIV. Over more than two decades, the pair called hundreds of regular season and playoff matchups, including memorable broadcasts such as the Miracle at the New Meadowlands and the Minneapolis Miracle. Buck became only the third network announcer, following Curt Gowdy and Al Michaels, to lead both MLB and NFL coverage in the same calendar year.

In March 2022, Buck and Aikman left Fox to join ESPN and ABC as the lead broadcast team for Monday Night Football, extending their run as the longest-tenured television booth partnership in NFL history. As part of an agreement allowing Buck to leave Fox a year early, ESPN transferred broadcast rights for a Big Ten college football game to Fox.

Beyond football and baseball, Buck has hosted studio programming and covered various other sports. In 2014, he anchored Fox's golf coverage for United States Golf Association championships, including the U.S. Open, initially working alongside Greg Norman and later Paul Azinger. Early in his career, he also called professional bass fishing, horse racing, and the 1999 Cotton Bowl Classic.

Buck has hosted several television programs, including the talk show Joe Buck Live on HBO in 2009, NFL Films Presents, and the longform sports interview series Undeniable with Joe Buck on Audience Network from 2015 to 2018. Following the death of Alex Trebek, Buck served as a guest host on Jeopardy! in August 2021, and was later selected to host the spinoff series ESPN Jeopardy! on Disney+.

His mainstream entertainment appearances include cameo roles playing himself in television shows such as Brockmire, Pitch, American Dad!, and Family Guy, as well as the film Fever Pitch. In 2022, he announced the Fox competition show Domino Masters and competed on season seven of The Masked Singer disguised as the character Ram.