Jim Williams: McCarver is All-Star as a baseball analyst

Only the “Stink bug crisis reaches 38 states” story on the right scared me more!

McCarver’s biggest fan is his partner, Buck, who watched his own father, the late Jack Buck, broadcast a number of sports on both television and radio. In 1987, Jack Buck won the Ford C. Frick Award and entered the Hall of Fame.

Talking to Joe Buck recently, he was very passionate about McCarver receiving the Frick Award.

“I am very proud for him,” Buck said. “He has been there for me from day one when I was 26 years old doing my first All-Star Game and my first World Series. I think that if you consider that he began his career as a player in the 1950s and retired in 1980 then went right into broadcasting the game, Tim has done as much as anyone in the Hall of Fame to promote, question and analyze the game of baseball. Second only to my father getting into the Hall of Fame, seeing Tim get this award is very special to me.”