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Uecker, who died Thursday at 90, used to sit in the bullpen at Connie Mack Stadium and deliver play-by-play commentary into a beer cup.
Bob Uecker, the legendary voice of the Brewers who died Thursday at the age of 90, was battling a previously undisclosed illness.
The former Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster died at the age of 90 almost two years after he was diagnosed with cancer.
The Milwaukee Brewers announced that Hall of Fame broadcaster and legend Bob Uecker passed away at the age ... St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies. After retiring, Uecker embarked on a new career as a radio broadcaster, beginning in 1971 as ...
Bob Uecker's death has prompted all kinds of memories from his baseball, broadcasting and acting career to resurface.
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PHILADELPHIA — The Phillies were flying to another city in the late 1960s when Bob Uecker, then the team’s seldom-used backup catcher, told the flight attendant he was sick. Uecker ...
Bob Uecker, the Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster with a quick wit and an unending love of the game, died Thursday. He was 90. Uecker had been battling small cell lung cancer since 2023, his family told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Bob Uecker, a former baseball catcher, actor and longtime Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster, died Thursday, the Brewers confirmed. He was 90.
Bob Uecker and Marty Brennaman were longtime friends and broadcasting legends who won Ford Frick awards from the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Ueck was the light of the Brewers, the soundtrack of our summers, the laughter in our hearts, and his passing is a profound loss.”