I got to know Joe Buck for the first time when I was covering the St. Louis football Cardinals training camp at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston.
I can’t remember the exact year – 1985, maybe 1986, or 1987 – but Joe was working in the Big Red’s camp as an assistant to the equipment staff. Joe was a teenager. I was a young football writer.
A few nights each week, we would convene in my dorm room to play hours of computer baseball on my old Commodore 64.
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