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Bob Uecker. Actor: Major League. Bob Uecker's first career was professional baseball. He played six seasons in the majors (1962-1967), playing catcher for three different National League teams: Braves (Milwaukee, WI, and Atlanta, GA), Cardinals (St. Louis, MO), and Phillies (Philadelphia, PA). His batting, never stellar, declined steadily over his career: he finished with a .200 lifetime average.
2 de jun. de 2022 · Bob Uecker had been familiar with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, otherwise known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, for many years, since the Brewers hosted awareness events at County Stadium. But the disease hit home about three years ago when his daughter was diagnosed with ALS and began a long battle that took her life on March 11, the same day that Brewers players reported to camp following ...
25 de ene. de 2024 · That’s Bob Uecker here.”\n\n**The big five-oh** \nIt wasn’t the way Uecker drew up his 50th season in the Brewers' booth in 2020, but as usual he made the most of it. The season was first delayed until late July by the coronavirus pandemic, and when it began, Major League Baseball instituted strict protocols limiting who could be on the service level at Miller Park.
4 de mar. de 2023 · March 4th, 2023. Adam McCalvy. @ AdamMcCalvy. PHOENIX -- Bob Uecker spent the winter in Arizona, defying the cold to swim laps most every morning. He turned 89 a couple of weeks before the Brewers reported to camp for what will be Uecker’s 53rd season calling games on radio for his hometown team. By most accounts, it was a peaceful offseason.
4 de ene. de 2012 · When Bob Uecker was sent down to the minor leagues in 1961 after breaking camp with the Milwaukee Braves, manager Charlie Dressen told him, “There is no room in baseball for a clown.” 1 Dressen could not have been more wrong. While no one would dispute that professional baseball is a business, Bob Uecker has spent more than a half-century in the game reminding us that the national pastime ...
Bob Uecker, in many ways, has been living out every American kid's dream. He played for his hometown Milwaukee Braves, as a catcher, and then became a Brewer...
8 de abr. de 2015 · Ever the storyteller, Uecker reflects on 60 years in baseball. April 8th, 2015. Adam McCalvy. Sixty years ago, the Milwaukee Braves signed a local kid who'd grown up watching ballgames through cracks in the fence at old Borchert Field. Bob Uecker wasn't good enough to make it as a pitcher, so he converted to catcher and gained fame by embracing ...
