Uecker, who would go on to become the beloved Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer for 54 years, decided to play a tuba in the outfield while shagging balls. Yes, a tuba. But is that really surprising?

Tuba Fats' regularly played for tips with a band in the French Quarter. Even though he toured the world, there was no place ...

Amsterdam tuba player Herbert S. Breen was married twice. His first wife, Maude Mosher, died in 1927, the year the Mohawk Mills Band was formed. Two years later he married ...

MORGAN: Forty-five years ago, Ray Grim - and, no, he doesn't live up to that last name - began this curious tradition of inviting anyone who can play a horn in the tuba family of instruments to ...