We look back on the stars who died this year, including David Lynch, Irv Gotti, Bob Uecker, Leslie Charleson, Jeff Baena, and ...
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 ...
Most people hope when they die, friends, family and other loved ones will leave flowers at their graves or memorials. We do things a little differently back home.
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 ...
ATLANTA — Former Atlanta Braves player turned iconic broadcaster Bob Uecker, 90, has died. His hometown team announced that “Mr. Baseball” died Thursday morning in what has become “one of ...
I noted Joe Garagiola said baseball is a funny game. On Jan. 16, some of that humor left this world as Bob Uecker, the ...
John Sterling called Yankees games for over three decades before he retired this past year from the broadcast booth — a run that wasn’t surpassed by many, but Bob Uecker was one. “I loved ...
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 ...
25 ‘Bob Uecker Day’ After his baseball career ... big break after opening for Don Rickles at Al Hirt’s nightclub in Atlanta in 1969. That performance caught Hirt’s attention, and the ...
The comedian, a giant of Wisconsin sports broadcasting and World Series winner, leaves behind Hall of Fame legacy.
Bob Uecker was a Milwaukeean through and through ... returning to the Braves after they moved to Atlanta. He was a member of the 1964 St. Louis team that won the World Series.