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Bob Uecker, Clubhouse Wit-Turned-Fashionable Sportscaster, Dies at 90

Sports | Bob Uecker, Clubhouse Wit-Turned-Popular Sportscaster, Dies at 90 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/sports/bob-uecker-dead.html Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Uecker turned his meager baseball career into humorous fodder covering games on TV and as a

Bob Uecker, Clubhouse Wit-Turned-Fashionable Sportscaster, Dies at 90

Sports|Bob Uecker, Clubhouse Wit-Turned-Fashionable Sportscaster, Dies at 90

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Uecker turned his meager baseball profession into humorous fodder overlaying video games on TV and as a business pitchman.

Bob Uecker, a smiling gray-haired man wearing a beige sports jacket with an ABC Sports logo, stands in what looks like a dugout and holds a bat in both hands.
Bob Uecker in 1977. He labored as an analyst for ABC Sports activities for six years, however as a sportscaster he was greatest identified for his lengthy tenure with the Milwaukee Brewers.Credit score…Walt Disney Tv, through Getty Photographs

Bob Uecker, the clubhouse wit who turned his tales of inferiority as a serious league catcher into a comic book narrative that animated his second profession as a sportscaster and business pitchman, died on Thursday at his house in Menomonee Falls, Wis. He was 90.

His household introduced the loss of life in an announcement launched by the Milwaukee Brewers, for whom he had lengthy been a broadcaster. The assertion stated he had been handled for small-cell lung most cancers since early 2023.

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Uecker proved himself undistinguished throughout his six seasons as a serious leaguer within the Nineteen Sixties. He eked out a profession batting average of .200, hit 14 house runs and drove in 74 runs. A profession reserve participant, he by no means began greater than 62 video games in a season for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, the St. Louis Cardinals or the Philadelphia Phillies.

“To final so long as I did, with the talents I had, was a triumph of the human spirit,” Uecker stated in his memoir, “Catcher within the Wry” (1982), written with Mickey Herskowitz.

He instructed self-deprecating tales — some true, some not — as if he had performed baseball solely to collect materials for a stand-up comedy routine.

“I used to be as soon as named minor league participant of the 12 months,” he stated. “Sadly, I had been within the majors for 2 years on the time.”


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