Bud Selig was born on July 30, , also in Milwaukee. Henry Aaron was born on Feb. They are 86, still among us, and they are the Baseball Trinity of Milwaukee, this durable old burg, this gathering place by the water. Aaron is the star of stars, the true Home Run King, and the most vivid reminder of those glorious years when the Braves arrived, fans flocked to County Stadium and a World Series was won over the Yankees in Yet he always came back home from the coasts to tell the locals on the radio what was happening with the Brewers, good or bad. Cory Provus did three years with Uecker from to , before moving to the Twins as the main play-by-play announcer in On Wednesday, I talked with Uecker on a cellphone as we sat in adjacent press areas — a coronavirus precaution — at Miller Park, and then he came over for a fist-bumping hello. Art Ruane, belligerent when full of beer after a game. He was showing us some proper techniques for making plays and fell on his rear end.
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Baseball Almanac is pleased to present an unprecedented collection of baseball related quotes spoken by Bob Uecker and about Bob Uecker. To last as long as I did with the skills I had, with the numbers I produced, was a triumph of the human spirit. I give credit to no one. I made myself what I am today. I go to a lot of Old Timers games and I haven't lost a thing.
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While no one would dispute that professional baseball is a business, Bob Uecker has spent more than a half-century in the game reminding us that the national pastime should also be about fun. Beloved for his self-deprecating humor, he would be the first person to make fun of his rather unremarkable playing career, particularly his offensive statistics. In six seasons as a major-league catcher almost all of it as a backup , Uecker batted exactly.
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