When Bob Uecker was in the clubhouse and on the field during the Milwaukee Brewers' NL Central championship celebration in September he was wearing a familiar hat. It wasn't a Brewers or ...
WORDS,” THE MASTERFUL RICHARD BURTON once said. “In the end, it all comes down to words.” The mercurial Welsh actor was ...
I want to take a few minutes to tell you about my good friend, Bob Uecker. I should preface these remarks by noting that my personal interactions with Bob were very, very limited, and he likely did ...
Take a stroll through Uecker's portfolio of pop culture. Bob Uecker as a Milwaukee Brave in 1963. 'The easiest way to catch a knuckleball was to wait until it stopped rolling and just pick it up ...
The first time Ichiro Suzuki set foot into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. was nearly a quarter-century ago, back on Nov. 12, 2001.
Before he was the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers for 54 seasons, a World Series winner, the star of Major League and Mr. Belvedere, and before anyone thought to call him “Mr. Baseball,” Bob Uecker ...
Hank Aaron and Bob Gibson, when they knew they were on the way out – meaning they were close to dying – made sure that they called Bob Uecker to make sure that he knew that this might be the ...
Photo: Jeff Haynes/Reuters Bob Uecker, who died Thursday at 90 ... baseball history (the others are the Hall-of-Famers Hank Aaron and Robin Yount, and former Brewers owner and MLB commissioner ...
He played alongside legends like Hank Aaron in Milwaukee and Bob Gibson in St. Louis, where the pair were part of a World Series championship in 1964. Uecker was inducted into the Baseball Hall of ...
“And both Bob Gibson and Hank Aaron died on that same day they spoke to him.” There is no easy path to 90 years old. Nobody makes it without heartache and tears, not even the joker. Uecker ...
named for Hank Aaron (before he broke the home run record, I’m proud to say) – I was born to have Milwaukee baseball in my heart. clear that he wasn’t camping out when he did. Uecker was ...
Unfortunately for The Boss, Bob Uecker wasn’t for sale. On Wednesday, Yankees TV announcer Michael Kay revealed that Steinbrenner tried luring Uecker away from Milwaukee “a few times” on his ...