Joe Buck is only 33, but his skills as a baseball play-by-play announcer are unquestioned.

"I think he was a better football announcer than a baseball announcer," he said.

As a little boy I whiled away most of my time pretending to be a baseball announcer on the radio.

Where most baseball announcers would say, "Here's the pitch!"

But in his bones, he is a play-by-play baseball announcer.

Action for a 10-Year-Old Most boys want to be baseball announcers when they grow up.

The award is given annually to a baseball announcer who has given major contributions to the game.

He was behind the microphone for over 4,000 losses-by one estimate, the most of any baseball announcer ever.

In the words of baseball announcers, the runner steals on a pitcher, not the catcher.

And baseball announcers love to observe how the opera's not over till the fat lady sings.