MORE ON JACK BUCK :

Here's a particularly moving tribute from the Post-Dispatch that Tony Kornheiser read over the air today Wherever we gathered, Jack Buck was there (Bernie Miklasz, 06/19/2002, St. Louis Post-Dispatch):

The great, familiar, famous voice has gone silent now. For decades, Jack Buck provided the soundtrack of the St. Louis summer. He brought baseball to life for generations of Cardinals fans. Each season he took us from April to October. He was our companion, our tour guide, our historian, our friend, the man we entrusted with this precious St. Louis tradition of baseball.

As several folks have pointed out, he was also the only great football broadcaster ever, his Monday Night games with Hank Stram far and away the best announcing football's ever seen (or heard). Posted by Orrin Judd at June 19, 2002 12:54 PM