Lucky Bastard: My Life, My Dad, and the Things I'm Not Allowed to Say on TV

Any fan of Joe Buck will love this book. For those haters, he shares tons of embarrassing stories! SarahA Full Disclosure: This review is by an unabashed Joe Buck fan. His voice is the voice of televised sports for me growing up, as his father's voice was the voice of sports for many years for older generations. I didn't even know his dad was a famous broadcast. Not what the free sample makes it out to be but still a great book I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I feel like I have a better understanding of the person behind the public image of Joe Buck. Based on the free sample, I expected the book to be a lot of stories "from the inside" of the broadcast book. However, th. A good way to spend a few hours I was curious if he would keep his St. Louis focus while trying to reach a national audience. He does. to the point that if you are a St. Louisperson and Cardinal fan it really resonates. If not, less so. Buck really broods over how he is perceived, way mor

Praise for Lucky Bastard“Buck unleashes his inner stand-up comic, sprinkling the text with surprisingly funny and often self-deprecating wit.”—Booklist“With a comic yet reverent approach to his life and broadcasting, Buck effectively captures the merging of his career and the popularity of American sports.”—Publishers Weekly“Honest, poignant, and full of fun and heart, this is the kind of sports book any fan will love reading.”—Bustle“With light humor and darker emotion, Buck c

He has two daughters, Natalie and Trudy, and is married to fellow sportscaster Michelle Beisner. Louis, where he still lives. Joe Buck grew up in St.

They know his father, Jack Buck, is a broadcasting legend and that he was beloved in his adopted hometown of St. They don’t know how he almost blew his career.   Yet they have no idea who Joe really is. Joe and Jack were best friends, but it wasn’t that simple. Jack, the voice of the St. They haven’t read his funniest and most embarrassing stories or heard about his interactions with the biggest sports stars of this era. And they don’t know what it was really like to grow up in his father’s shadow. 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. Louis.   They don’t know how hard he can laugh at himself—or that he thinks some of his critics have a point. In this New York Times bestselling memoir, the announcer of the biggest sporting events in the country—including the 2017 S