Joe Buck is the 2026 winner of the Ford C. Frick Award, joining his late dad as the only father-son duo to be celebrated for broadcasting excellence by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.

The younger Buck has transitioned away from baseball and is the voice of ESPN's "Monday Night Football." Still, he has been on the call of more World Series and All-Star Games on network television than any play-by-play announcer, according to the Hall of Fame.

He is the 50th winner of the award and earned the highest point total ever in voting by the 16 members of the Frick Award Committee. Other finalists on the ballot: Brian Anderson, Skip Caray, Rene Cardenas, Gary Cohen, Jacques Doucet, Duane Kuiper, John Rooney, Dan Shulman and John Sterling.

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