Buck Canel
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Eloy "Buck" Canel (March 4, 1906 - April 7, 1980) was a long-running Spanish-language broadcaster for NBC and locally for the New York Mets and New York Yankees.
Broadcasting Career
Canel was born in Argentina. He began as a writer for the Staten Island Advance, and later as a correspondent for the Associated Press, Havas (the French wire service), and Agence France-Press (the French News Agency). Canel began broadcasting the World Series in Spanish for NBC in 1937, maintaining the position for an incredible 42 years. He also called New York Yankees and New York Mets games in Spanish for the city's many Spanish-speaking baseball fans. Commissioner Peter Ueberroth credited Canel with spreading the love of baseball to untold numbers of Latinos. He died at the age of 74 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.
Canel received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1985.
