As a catcher for the Milwaukee Braves, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies, Uecker hit .200 with 14 home runs. As a Brewers catcher in the mid-2000s, Chad Moeller hit .204 with 14 home runs. In Uecker, Moeller said on Thursday, he found a friend who could needle him with sweetness.
Legendary Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker died on Thursday at the age of 90 after a long battle with cancer. Uecker, who spent 54 years as a broadcaster for Milwaukee, was on the call for the Brewers' season-ending loss to the Mets. An
Uecker, a baseball icon, television and movie funnyman and Hall of Fame Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer, died Thursday at the age of 90.
The Brewers manager reflected to the Journal Sentinel on the final season and then the passing of one of his closest friends.
Like so many other Wisconsinites, Bob Uecker was the soundtrack of my youth. Then, I got to know him while covering the Milwaukee Brewers.
Bob Uecker completed his forgettable six-year major-league career with an even .200 batting average."Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products," he once quipped.He called his hometown Milwaukee Brewers games for 54 consecutive years until his death at age 90 on Thursday.
Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment that reached far beyond the ballpark.
MILWAUKEE -- Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who, after a short playing career, earned the moniker "Mr. Baseball" and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90.
On Thursday, the Milwaukee Brewers announced that Bob Uecker, the longtime voice of the team, has died at age 90. Uecker, a baseball player-turned-broadcaster-turned-pop culture icon, had a sense of humor that made him a household name outside of the Brewers fandom.
A true baseball lifer, Uecker was described as "one of a kind" by everyone who spoke about him. A former player, Uecker was a Hall of Fame broadcaster who called Brewers games for
It’s not enough to simply call Bob Uecker an original, "1 of 1" or the last of his kind. Uecker was both the OG and the parody, a man whose friendly voice on the airwaves echoed the folksy announcing tropes imbued in baseball for the better part of a century while also, somehow, sending them up.