Buck Canel

Eloy "Buck" Canel (March 4 1906 – April 7 1980) was an Argentine American Spanish-language sportscaster of Major League Baseball games. He won the 1985 Ford C. Frick Award. He began his career in journalism. He died at age 74 in Croton-on-Hudson, New York.

Canel announced the New York Mets and New York Yankees games in Spanish during the 1970s over radio station WHOM, which was then a Spanish radio station in New York City. The feeds were occasionally broadcast to Latin American radio stations. [cite web |url=http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/piratejim/nycamhistory6.html |title=Radio-History.com: New York City AM Radio History - Page 6 |accessdate=2007-03-28 |format=HTML ]

The call letters of WHOM are now used for an easy listening station in Portland, Maine.

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* [http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/frick_bios/canel_buck.htm Baseball Hall of Fame - Frick Award recipient]