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Jack Buck

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    UPDATE: Giving the Rush Bust All the Honor it Deserves

    UPDATE May 22, 3 p.m.: Our plans have been foiled. ABC News reports that a 24-hour surveillance camera will be placed in front of the Rush bust. It is the only statue in the Hall of Famous Missourians to be so honored. ------- Despite the best efforts of House Democrats, the bust of Rush Limbaugh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 14, 2012

    Metal: Meet the 2012 RFT Music Award Nominees

    The 2012 Riverfront Times Music Showcase is a month away. And if that is our own St. Louis Music holiday, then consider this the season: Over the next month, we'll be making our cases for all 125 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year. Each weekday between now and the showcase ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2012

    The Ten Best Shows In St. Louis This Weekend: April 13 to 15

    So it seems that the weather is finally seasonally appropriate for the first time in 2012, but don't let the April showers keep you inside this weekend or else you're going to miss out on some great live music. We've got three local album release shows this weekend -- hip-hoppers Hawthorne Headhunte ... More >>

  • Music

    April 12, 2012

    Jack Buck

    9 p.m. Friday, April 13. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Avenue.

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    The 2012 RFT Music Awards Nominees

    That's right, sports fans, it's once again time for the big ol' love letter to St. Louis music known as the RFT Music Awards and Showcase. The nominating committee has made its arguments and to show for it we have five of the best bands and artists in 25 categories. Many of these fine musicians wil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    The Best -- And Worst -- Of Baseball Broadcasting

    ​The noted sabermetric site Fangraphs recently did something a little unusual for such a hardcore stat-oriented website. They ranked baseball's television broadcasting teams. And while I might have expected them to come up with a statistic or formula to express the quality -- or lack thereof -- of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2012

    Ten Best Things to Do in St. Louis This Weekend: January 13 to 15

    This was the first week of torrential show announcements for 2012, and we've got a weekend to match. The Civil Wars play a sold-out Pageant on Sunday, Eric Johnson's at Old Rock House and you're forgiven for missing Emperor X at the Billiken Club -- he's playing the Firebird this weekend. On the loc ... More >>

  • Music

    January 12, 2012

    Jack Buck

    8 p.m. Saturday, January 14. The Heavy Anchor, 5226 Gravois Avenue.

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Ten

    Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sleepy Ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2012

    40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Nine

    Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sleepy Ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2012

    40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Eight

    ​Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Seven

    ​Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    40 Best St. Louis Releases of 2011: Part Six

    Part One: The Union Electric, Sweet Tooth, King Kong Magnetics, Warm Jets USA Part Two: Glass Teeth, Ryan Spearman, the Breaks and Adult Fur Part Three: Rum Drum Ramblers, Humanoids, Old Lights and Volcanoes Part Four: Bo & the Locomotive, Rockwell Knuckles, Dubb Nubb and Palace Part Five: Sleepy Ki ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 28, 2011

    Joe Buck Honors His Father with Game 6 Call

    Jack and Joe Buck call their respective Game 6's from Kidd Video on Vimeo.Twenty years ago, the late-great Jack Buck was doing the TV commentary for Game 6 of the 1991 World Series when Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins hit an 11th-inning home run to win the game and take the Atlanta Braves to a ... More >>

  • News

    July 28, 2011

    Here's To You, Mr. Robinson: KMOX finds Jackie Robinson's 1960 interview with Jack Buck

    Jack and Joe Buck call their respective Game 6's from Kidd Video on Vimeo.Twenty years ago, the late-great Jack Buck was doing the TV commentary for Game 6 of the 1991 World Series when Kirby Puckett of the Minnesota Twins hit an 11th-inning home run to win the game and take the Atlanta Braves to a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 20, 2011

    Jack Buck, "the Negro," and Jackie Robinson

    Jack Buck interviews Jackie Robinson​On July 7, 2011, when rain halted the Cardinals' assault on the Diamondbacks in the sixth inning, local sportscasters found themselves with an hour to kill. Kevin Wheeler, host of Sports Open Line at KMOX (1120 AM), decided to do something that hadn't been done ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    Baseball Loses Another Legend: Dave Niehaus Dead at 75

    Niehaus. ​You remember several years back, when the whole satellite radio thing was just starting up? XM and Sirius were still separate companies and David Bowie fell out of the sky. It was a crazy time. Well, I happened to be one of the earliest adopters of satellite radio, but not because I ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 25, 2010

    Baseball's Shining Stars

    Niehaus. ​You remember several years back, when the whole satellite radio thing was just starting up? XM and Sirius were still separate companies and David Bowie fell out of the sky. It was a crazy time. Well, I happened to be one of the earliest adopters of satellite radio, but not because I ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2010

    From Father to Son

    Niehaus. ​You remember several years back, when the whole satellite radio thing was just starting up? XM and Sirius were still separate companies and David Bowie fell out of the sky. It was a crazy time. Well, I happened to be one of the earliest adopters of satellite radio, but not because I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2009

    Season's End

    urbanprankster.com​Tonight, the Cardinals will begin their final series of the year. Well, final series of the regular season, anyway. Luckily, postseason baseball awaits for our boys in red this year, rather than the specter of another October spent rootrootrooting against the Cubbies. So am I sa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Fire Destroys Home of Carole Buck, Widow of Cardinals Broadcaster Jack Buck

    www.nab.orgJack Buck​A fire early this morning ripped through the suburban St. Louis home of Carole Buck, widow of the late Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck. According to media reports, the fire awoke Buck's widow, Carole Buck, around 1 a.m. this morning. She called 911 herself and escaped the blaz ... More >>

  • News

    July 8, 2009

    Map Locations At A Glance: Restaurants

    www.nab.orgJack Buck​A fire early this morning ripped through the suburban St. Louis home of Carole Buck, widow of the late Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck. According to media reports, the fire awoke Buck's widow, Carole Buck, around 1 a.m. this morning. She called 911 herself and escaped the blaz ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2009

    Baseball Announcer Catch-Phrases are Hopelessly Out of Date

    Via InsideSTLImagine if you will, Mike Shannon as the color man for the NBA. Baseball announcers are delightfully, hopelessly behind the times when it comes to coining catch-phrases to describe the on-field action. So much so, that when young bucks and young Bucks try to roll out a new one-liner, Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2009

    Phillies Announcer Harry Kalas, 73, Dies Afer Collapse in Broadcast Booth

    Harry Kalas, the voice of the Philadelphia Phillies, was found unconscious earlier today in the Washington Nationals' broadcast booth, where he was preparing to work the Nats-Phillies game. He was taken to the hospital, where he later passed away. Cause of death is as yet unknown. The death of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2009

    My Cardinals: Tim Lane

    This past year, over at Viva El Birdos, I wrote a post on Christmas Eve called "God Bless Us, Everyone." It wasn't about baseball, as is often the case with the things that I write, but about my own feelings at Christmas about, well, just life in general. I was pretty proud of the way the piece turn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2009

    St. Louis Legislator Vows to Sue State Should Welfare Provision Become Law

    State Rep. Don CallowayI just got off the phone with State Representative Don Calloway (D - St. Louis County). Haven't heard of Mr. Calloway? You soon will. The freshman legislator is the savant who's filed a bill to finally change that embarrassing stretch of Interstate 70 known as the "Mark McGwir ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2009

    My Cardinals: Will Leitch, Blogger Superhero

    Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could giv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2008

    Card of the Week: 1981 Bill "Parallel Lines" Buckner

    Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could giv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2008

    Belgium to St. Louis: We're Not So Different, Are We?

    Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could giv ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 31, 2007

    The St. Louis Shag

    Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could giv ... More >>

  • News

    November 22, 2006

    "You’ve discovered what we’ve known all along -- that the sport has a surprisingly rich and fascinating history and that, dang it, it’s fun for everyone."

    Week of November 23, 2006

  • News

    October 27, 2004

    Big or Rich?

    Unreal takes matters into our own hands (tee hee!) and re-enters the wonderful world of note-passing with the opposite sex. Plus, we settle the age-old debate: Which is better, Clayton or Ladue?

  • Calendar

    October 6, 2004

    Italian Heritage Tours

    (It's pronounced "I-talian")

  • News

    July 16, 2003

    Trumped

    Dick Gephardt also likes kittens and cross-stitching; Unreal has fun with greed and other mortal sins

  • News

    February 5, 2003

    Static Freefall

    Carroll's departure from KMOX paced by station's ratings decline

  • News

    October 2, 2002

    The Law's an Ass

    Week of October 2, 2002

  • News

    October 2, 2002

    Redbird's Burden

    La Russa endures a hell of a season, escaping the purgatory of tradition

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best TV-Sports Anchor

    Martin Kilcoyne, KTVI (Channel 2)

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best Member of the Loyal Opposition

    Jeanette Mott Oxford

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best Pro Coach

    Tony La Russa

  • Best of St. Louis

    September 25, 2002

    Best Cardinal

    Albert Pujols

  • News

    July 10, 2002

    No-Show

    Week of July 10, 2002

  • News

    July 3, 2002

    Riverfront Enquirer?

    Week of July 3, 2002

  • News

    June 26, 2002

    Sudden Death

    Halo and hype over Jack Buck pierced by the passing of Darryl Kile

  • News

    February 2, 2000

    AND NOW, SOME SUPERFICIAL QUESTIONS

    Halo and hype over Jack Buck pierced by the passing of Darryl Kile

  • Dining

    February 2, 2000

    Jack and Jill

    Our reviewer broadcasts her opinion of J. Buck's

  • News

    November 17, 1999

    WINGENIOUS

    There's method to her madness, and Lady Luck has the prizes to prove it

  • News

    January 13, 1999

    The Final Bell

    The passing of wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick rekindles interest in the wrestling days of yore

  • News

    January 13, 1999

    Letters to the Editor

    The passing of wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick rekindles interest in the wrestling days of yore

  • News

    January 6, 1999

    1998: The Year in Sports

    The passing of wrestling promoter Sam Muchnick rekindles interest in the wrestling days of yore

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