It was a grueling 2½-week schedule for Joe Buck, perhaps the most arduous ever undertaken by a network television sportscaster given the magnitude of the games he covered.
Buck, the lead baseball and football play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports, called 15 games in 18 days, working in six cities across all four time zones in the continental United States. Five times he bounced from one sport to the other, each time going to a different time zone without a day off to adjust. The journey began Oct. 11 with an NFL contest in East Rutherford, N.J., and ended Sunday night in Los Angeles with the final game of the World Series.