When he left the Army in 1956, he signed with the Milwaukee Braves. After six years in the minor leagues, he was called up to play catcher for the Braves in 1962. Bob Uecker accepts American ...

Bob Uecker was beloved by audiences worldwide for his broadcasting abilities, humor and acting chops, usually playing himself ...

Uecker, a baseball icon, television and movie funnyman and Hall of Fame Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer, died Thursday at ...

Bob Uecker, who turned what was ... Uecker never finished high school but, after enlisting in the army at the age of 20, that didn’t stop him from saying he pitched for Marquette University ...

Bob Uecker, a legendary baseball broadcaster for ... Uecker was born and raised in Milwaukee and enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1954. He played baseball while he was at Fort Leonard Wood and Fort ...

"In a way, there is no 'Major League' without Bob Uecker," Director David S. Ward told me in a phone call. The world became a ...

Bob Uecker, who transformed his futility as a baseball ... After high school, Mr. Uecker joined the Army, playing on baseball teams at bases in Missouri and Northern Virginia.

The beloved voice of the Milwaukee Brewers starred in 'Mr. Belvedere' and 'Major League,' and was delightfully self-deprecating on 'The Tonight Show' and in beer ads.

Uecker joined the Army in 1954 and became a corporal ... “A new guy would get brought up and maybe nobody knew him … (Bob) had already known his name, he knew something about him and ...