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.
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On Thursday, the Milwaukee Brewers announced that Bob Uecker, the longtime voice of the team, has died at age 90. Uecker, a baseball player-turned-broadcaster-turned-pop culture icon, had a sense of humor that made him a household name outside of the Brewers fandom.
Uecker, a baseball icon, television and movie funnyman and Hall of Fame Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer, died Thursday at the age of 90.
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.
The Brewers manager reflected to the Journal Sentinel on the final season and then the passing of one of his closest friends.
With Bob Uecker's passing at the age of 90, the Milwaukee Brewers' 2024 wild-card playoff loss represented an end of era.
It’s not enough to simply call Bob Uecker an original, "1 of 1" or the last of his kind. Uecker was both the OG and the parody, a man whose friendly voice on the airwaves echoed the folksy announcing tropes imbued in baseball for the better part of a century while also,
Only a handful of family and friends knew the Brewers' last game of the 2024 season was likely Uecker's last game, too.