Did you hear the one about the time Bob Uecker propelled the St. Louis Cardinals to the 1964 World Series? First, let’s set the scene before we get too far ahead of ourselves.

Beloved broadcaster spent 1964-65 with St. Louis Cardinals as a key contributor for a championship, for laughs if not hits.

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.

Bob Uecker, the Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster with a quick wit and an unending love of the game, died Thursday. He was 90. Uecker had been battling small cell lung cancer since 2023, his family told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Bob Uecker passed away Thursday, January 16. Here are his best quotes from his time as the Milwaukee Brewers play-by-play man.

Bob Uecker passed away at the age of 90. He had spent a brief time with the St. Louis Cardinals and won the 1964 World Series with them.

Bob Uecker, who died on Jan. 15, 2025 at age 90, was a former catcher who played for the Braves in Milwaukee and Atlanta, St. Louis Cardinals and the Phillies (1966-67) during a six-year career in the Majors.

Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker “Mr. Baseball” and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died.

(AP Photo/Aaron Gash) Milwaukee Brewers’ owner Mark Attanasio and wife Debbie celebrate with broadcaster Bob Uecker after clinching the National League Central Division after a baseball game against the St. Louis Cardinals, Sept. 26, 2023, in Milwaukee.

Former St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny spent 20 days in an intensive care unit, where he was diagnosed with a subarachnoid hemorrhage, a serious and potentially life-threatening condition that involves bleeding in the brain.

Matheny tells St. Louis sportscaster Martin Kilcoyne that he was hospitalized in intensive care unit for nearly three weeks.

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