WORDS,” THE MASTERFUL RICHARD BURTON once said. “In the end, it all comes down to words.” The mercurial Welsh actor was ...
For those of us who watched, worked or played at Braves Field in the 1950s and early ’60s, Uecker’s passing brought back fond memories of a time when baseball was the prominent summer pastime.” | Opin ...
He missed the tag!" Bob Uecker jokes with photographers and well wishers during the unveiling of his statue Friday, April 25, 2014, in section 422 at Miller Park in Milwaukee known as the "Uecker ...
I noted Joe Garagiola said baseball is a funny game. On Jan. 16, some of that humor left this world as Bob Uecker, the ...
Not only was Bob Uecker, or “Ueck,” talented enough to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York for his broadcasting, he possessed the rare gift of being able to ...
The jokes, the broadcast and the stories in a way only he could do. “Bob Uecker was a player that happens to be good at broadcasting, not a broadcaster that used to be a player,” Cotroneo said.
Bob Uecker completed his forgettable six-year major ... he had nothing written," Kasper recalled. "It was one joke after the next, after the next, after the next. It is the greatest Hall of ...
For those trained in the art of self-deprecation, death must be no great surprise. Bob Uecker died today at the age of 90. A veteran of two heart surgeries, he had been battling lung cancer for ...
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 ...
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.
In so many places, Bob Uecker was a larger-than-life figure ... No matter the amount of self-deprecating jokes he made about his career, there’s no faking your way to play Major League Baseball.
The players inside the Milwaukee Brewers clubhouse always said that Bob Uecker was one of the boys. And he sure was. In every ...