Uecker ended his major league playing career with a 200 batting average in 297 games. He had some big moments, including a hit off Sandy Koufax. And he could boast that he caught two of the best pitch ...
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 ...
Welcome to the Hall of Fame, Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. It's a remarkable achievement to survive the gauntlet of baseball writers to get elected to Cooperstown: After all, the ...
While Sabathia was a runaway choice in the Hall of Fame election, selected on 86.8% of the ballots by the Baseball Writers' Association of America – joining peers Ichiro Suzuki and Billy Wagner – this ...
For years he has been the play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers. He has starred in ... and I'm thinking of Warren Spahn. - Yeah. - And Bob Gibson. - Bob Gibson, Lew Burdette.
Milwaukee Brewers team principal owner Mark Attanasio used a series of adjectives to describe Bob Uecker, the legendary team broadcaster who died Thursday at age 90. "Humble. Legend. Icon.
The Milwaukee Brewers clubhouse ... as emotional as it was,’’ Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich said. “We knew that likely was the last one having Bob being part of it." ...
For 54 seasons of Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers fans experienced one constant: Bob Uecker. Moments after a heartbreaking loss in the National League Wild Card series to the New York Mets in ...
He related the story to an old Milwaukee Brewers pitcher the last time they ... have a couple of laughs before they died. “And both Bob Gibson and Hank Aaron died on that same day they spoke ...