YouTube While many of the top free agents this offseason have signed and know where they’ll be playing baseball next season, one franchise player still remains on the market and it seems like his old team is ready to move on.
Sure, we'll know him as the voice of Brewers baseball forever, but we'll always have a career full of laughs from Ueck, as well.
The passing of Milwaukee Brewers icon Bob Uecker reverberated throughout the organization and city on Thursday, with fans, community leaders and others celebrating the man who touched countless lives across more than five decades in the broadcast booth.
As a catcher for the Milwaukee Braves, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Philadelphia Phillies, Uecker hit .200 with 14 home runs. As a Brewers catcher in the mid-2000s, Chad Moeller hit .204 with 14 home runs. In Uecker, Moeller said on Thursday, he found a friend who could needle him with sweetness.
Bob Uecker was 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.
The 2024 season ended in heartbreak for the Milwaukee Brewers. Here's what Bob Uecker said during the ninth inning of his final broadcast.
Uecker's final game in the booth was for the winner-take-all Game 3 of the Wild Card series between the Brewers and the New York Mets on October 3, 2024.
Sometimes you get one like we get in Buffalo on Sunday night when it is Josh Allen and the Bills going against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.
Only a handful of family and friends knew the Brewers' last game of the 2024 season was likely Uecker's last game, too.
Bob Uecker, who parlayed a forgettable playing career into a punch line for movie and TV appearances as “Mr. Baseball” and a Hall of Fame broadcasting tenure, has died. He was 90. The Milwaukee Brewers,
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 that reached far beyond the ballpark.