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Veteran sportscaster Joe Davis has been tapped to become the lead play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports’ Major League Baseball coverage.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorThere’s a new regular Joe calling baseball games on Fox.Joe Davis, a veteran sportscaster who has been known on the West Coast for calling Los Angeles Dodger games and as a Fox Sports regular, will take over as the lead play-by-play announcer for Fox Sports’ Major League Baseball coverage. He succeeds Joe Buck, the longtime Fox baseball and football announcer who has moved to ESPN to work on “Monday Night Football.” Davis will join John Smoltz in the network’s lead baseball booth.“If you had asked me when I was 10 what I wanted to do when I grew up, I would’ve told you ‘Call the World Series.’ So when I say this is a dream-come-true, I really mean it,” said Davis, in a statement.  Davis and Smoltz, along with reporters Tom Verducci and Ken Rosenthal, are expected to call Fox’s coverage of the 2022 MLB All-Star Game, MLB at Field of Dreams Game and the MLB post-season Postseason, including its 25th Fall Classic.

Hollywood will come to Iowa next Thursday, as the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox will meet at a special temporary field near the property used in the Field of Dreams film.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorBaseball’s own cable network plans to test a new way of broadcasting the national pastime.When the Cleveland Indians take on the New York Yankee this Sunday at 1p.m. from Progressive Field, a group of former players and current broadcasters on MLB Network will describe the action in a different way.

Buchwald is expanding into film and TV sport content after signing a strategic alliance with CSE, a leading sports and media agency. Unlike rival Hollywood talent agencies that increasingly bring top stars from the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball on their books for representation, Buchwald is looking to work with CSE and its agency clients to develop content across platforms that include film, TV, branding and podcasting.

Buchwald is getting into the business of sports representation. The full-service talent agency has signed a strategic alliance with leading sports agency CSE to form Buchwald Sports, a partnership that will allow Buchwald to work with CSE and their roster of clients to develop and create opportunities in the unscripted/alternative programming and scripted spaces for film, television, streaming and digital platforms.