Joe Buck getting back in baseball booth on Opening Day

Joe Buck will return to the baseball booth on Opening Day. The legendary broadcaster will call the Yankees’ season-opener against the Brewers on March 27 for ESPN.It’s the first time Buck, 55, will be the play-by-play man for a national baseball game since the 2021 World Series.Buck has largely been away from the sport since leaving Fox for ESPN in 2022 after spending 26 years as the network’s top baseball play-by-play announcer, calling 24 World Series, including 22 straight from 2000-21.Since joining ESPN, Buck has served as the voice of “Monday Night Football” alongside analyst Troy Aikman. Last July, Buck called a Cardinals game with broadcaster Chip Caray on Bally Sports Midwest.The telecast was a tribute of sorts to Joe’s father, Jack Buck, and Chip’s grandfather, Harry Caray, who worked together in the St.Louis booth for 14 years (1954-68). As recently as 2022, it seemed Buck was all but done calling baseball games when he told Sports Illustrated that he was “ready to move on from that part of my life” after more than two decades in the sport.The Yankees, Buck admitted to The Athletic’s Andrew Marchand, were part of the reason he agreed to get back behind the mic for a baseball game.“It’s fun,” Buck said, per the outlet.

“It is exciting to think about doing the game at Yankee Stadium, where I’ve called World Series.I’m not saying that if it wasn’t the Yankees, I probably wouldn’t have done it, but that might be true.

It’s the Yankees at home on Opening Day against a division winner.”He will call the season opener with former Yankees player and manager Joe Girardi and ex-Brewers catcher and current analyst Bill Schroeder....