Buck Canel

Eloy "Buck" Canel (March 4, 1906 – April 7, 1980) was an Argentinean-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.^[1]

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

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Preceded by Curt Gowdy	Ford C. Frick Award 1985	Succeeded by Bob Prince

v • d • e Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 1985

BBWAA Vote	Lou Brock (79.75%) • Hoyt Wilhelm (83.8%)

Veterans Committee	Enos Slaughter • Arky Vaughan

J. G. Taylor Spink Award	Joe McGuff

Ford C. Frick Award	Buck Canel