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Lucky bastard : my life, my dad, and the things I'm not allowed to say on TV / Joe Buck, with Michael Rosenberg.

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Sportscasters -- United States -- Biography.

Fathers and sons -- Biography.

9781101984567 (hc.)

viii, 295 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

Part 1 Can You Hear Me Now? -- Uh-Oh -- Part 2 Jack's Kid -- The Adventures of Jasper Pennypucker -- Now Playing Jack Buck . . . Jack Buck! -- My First Professional At-Bat -- Cold Winds -- Part 3 Thanks, Mr. Murdoch -- A Fourth Network -- Big Jumps -- Thrills and Chills (and Steroids) -- We Are Blessed -- Part 4 Good-bye, Dad -- The Last Fight -- Part 5 The Top -- This Thing Is Huge -- Married . . . with Children -- Buck Rhymes with Suck -- Part 6 The Bottom -- Grandstanding -- The Split -- Vocal Discord -- Part 7 Climbing Up Again -- Happy Days Are Here Again -- The Mountaintop -- So What!.

The announcer of the historic, Chicago Cubs-winning World Series reveals why he is one lucky bastard. Joe Buck broadcasts one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, calls the World Series every year, announces the Super Bowl every three years. Yet we have no idea who Joe really is. Or how he got here. How he almost blew his career. Here are the funniest and most embarrassing stories and his interactions with the biggest sports stars of this era. How he can laugh at himself and that he thinks some of his critics have a point. What it was like to grow up in his father’s shadow. Jack, the voice of the St. Louis Cardinals for almost fifty years, helped Joe get his broadcasting start at eighteen. But Joe had to prove himself, first as a minor league radio announcer and then on local TV, national TV with ESPN, and then finally on FOX. He now has a successful career, but only after a lot of dues-paying, learning, and pretty damn entertaining mistakes that are recounted in this book.

Autobiographies.

Rosenberg, Michael.

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