With the Super Bowl out of the way and March Madness on the horizon, we’re clearly on the way to a new season of baseball. It ...
On April 25, 2014, a second statue was dedicated in his honor at Miller Park, this one in the last row of the “Uecker Seats” high up on the terrace level behind home plate, where fans could ...
4. His Miller Lite ads, and the dawn of “Uecker Seats” Uecker worked as a pitchman for Miller Lite, and throughout the 1980s would appear in a number of TV ads. None of which, however ...
Bob Uecker wasn’t an announcer. He was an aspiration, proof you could thrive in an industry even if you fail at first. He was a bull rider, tilting and shifting as his dream bucked underneath him, ...
in section 422 at Miller Park in Milwaukee known as the "Uecker Seats." The statue pays tribute to the popular Miller Lite "All Stars" advertising campaign from the '70s that featured Uecker's ...
When an usher comes along and asks him to move out of his seat, Uecker exclaims excitedly, "I must be in the front row!" However, he turns out to be not quite as important as he thinks and finds ...
We had a blast doing those spots. " It became the inspiration for a statue at American Family Field, where Uecker is perched in a seat literally in the back row of the stadium. When Miller Park ...
Bob Uecker, who turned what was, by his own admission, a mediocre baseball career into a 54-year broadcasting gig with the Milwaukee Brewers that earned him a spot in the Baseball Hall of Fame and ...
The late Bob Uecker's reach extends well beyond Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts. Let's run down his pop-culture ...