As we bask in all the welcome reminiscences and nostalgia of the pending milestone anniversary of the 2004 Red Sox world championship, a reminder from the broadcasting side of the greatest baseball redemption story ever told.
Joe Buck delivered that October almost as often as Big Papi did.
Twenty years later, Buck’s calls as the play-by-play voice of Fox’s broadcasts of the American League Championship Series comeback against the Yankees and sweep of the Cardinals in the World Series remain the perfect narration of a plot twist Red Sox fans had waited generations to experience.