Many familiar faces that appeared on baseball cards and went on to ... in the game in Warren Spahn of the Braves and Bob Gibson of the Cardinals. I ran into Uecker several times on the baseball ...

He took up the game when he played for the Milwaukee Braves in the 1960s ... When did you start playing golf? BOB UECKER: Way back when I was playing pro baseball, my teammate, Clete Boyer ...

Bob Uecker died on Jan ... I recall that it was Carson who gave Uecker the nickname “Mr. Baseball.” For those of us who watched, worked or played at Braves Field in the 1950s and early ...

"I knew when my career was over," Uecker said. "In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture." How Bob Uecker helped the Cardinals win the pennant Uecker spent 1964 with the Cardinals ...

The tributes began pouring in following the news that legendary Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker had died at age 90.

MILWAUKEE -- Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre ... as a septuagenarian in a speedo. But Uecker’s first love was baseball, and that never changed. Following six seasons in the Major Leagues with the ...

For those trained in the art of self-deprecation, death must be no great surprise. Bob Uecker died today at the age of 90. A veteran of two heart surgeries, he had been battling lung cancer for ...

Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker “Mr. Baseball” and ... games with the Evansville Braves of the Minor Leagues in ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker "Mr. Baseball" and ... with the Milwaukee Braves in 1956 and reached ...

Bob Uecker passed away at the age of 90. Uecker, who bore the ironic title of “Mr. Baseball,” became a ... contract in 1956 with the old Milwaukee Braves, he said, for $3,000.