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17/09/2001 Sportscaster Jack Buck recites moving patriotic-themed poem

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Jack Buck reads a moving speech and poem in St. Louis

Jack Buck was an American sportscaster best known for his work announcing the Major League Baseball games of the St. Louis Cardinals. In the final years of his life, he became recognized for writing poetry, culminating in national attention for his poem "For America", written after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and recited on the first night Major League Baseball resumed after September 11 at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis in one of his final public appearances.
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