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Brewers team principal owner Mark Attanasio said there are plans in the works for ways to honor Bob Uecker, including a big celebration in summer.
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 Brewers play-by-play broadcaster Jeff Levering first shared a booth with Bob Uecker in 2015. The first 10 years of his major league career overlapped
The Milwaukee Bucks honored Milwaukee Brewers legend Bob Uecker with a video and a 'Take me out to the ballgame' rendition.
Legendary Milwaukee Brewers play-by-play announcer Bob Uecker died at the age of 90 on Thursday, and the tributes to his iconic career have already come pouring in. Everyone from the Brewers to Major League Baseball to J.
At his Hall of Fame -induction ceremony in Cooperstown in 2003, Bob Uecker delivered a memorable acceptance speech that in essence was a stand-up comedy act. Forty-four Hall of Fame players on the stage behind him were reduced to tears over Uecker’s self-deprecating humor, and the audience of some 18,000 roared with laughter.
When the Milwaukee Brewers lost Game 3 of their wild-card series with the Mets by way of a four-run ninth inning, it was an understandably emotional scene in that clubhouse. The Brewers were on the brink of advancing to the NLDS only to collapse in front of their home fans. That’s already tough.
Spend a few minutes on the Internet to watch Bob Uecker’s 2003 Hall of Fame induction speech. Not sure if we’ve eulogized Uecker in the proper, broadest light and brightest light. He was a national treasure,
The Bucks gave an extended tribute to Bob Uecker, the voice of the Brewers who was beloved by fans and a Baseball Hall of Famer.
He was the most famous .200 hitter in baseball history. Bob Uecker, who died Thursday at age 90, played six years in the big leagues. He had 14 career home runs, one of which came off Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax.