[NA] Mr. Baseball, Bob Uecker, gone west at 90

[flyingcheesehead]

Get up, Get up, get outta here, gone!

Bob Uecker has been the voice of the Brewers, as well as several baseball movies, since before I was born. Baseball will never be the same.

He was a really funny guy, too - I've been really enjoying all of the videos people are posting in his memory today:

 

[luvflyin]

Get up, Get up, get outta here, gone!

Bob Uecker has been the voice of the Brewers, as well as several baseball movies, since before I was born. Baseball will never be the same.

He was a really funny guy, too - I've been really enjoying all of the videos people are posting in his memory today:

ROTFLMAO, thx

 

[CJones]

Juuuuuuust a bit outside.

I have used that line more times than I can count...to the point that my wife has started using it, not really knowing where it came from.

 

[SixPapaCharlie]

This is one of those where if you told me he died 20 years ago I would say yeah I think I remember that.

Funny guy

 

[SoonerAviator]

Dorn is oh-for-the-century against this guy.

 

[JackL-3J]

Great player and announcer,
Less pretense,

RIP, Mr. Baseball.

 

[JackL-3J]

Juuuuuuust a bit outside.

I have used that line more times than I can count...to the point that my wife has started using it, not really knowing where it came from.

Spam?

 

[frfly172]

Mr baseball with a sense of humor,he will be missed.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

This is one of those where if you told me he died 20 years ago I would say yeah I think I remember that.

Funny guy

Yeah, he hasn't really been in any nationally recognized "stuff" that I can think of after Major League in 1994. But, he's been the voice of the Brewers literally since the second season they existed. 54 years behind the mic! So in recent years when he's been sick on and off it makes the local news when he's not going to call a game or three, and again when Ueck's back on the mic.

The most astounding stat I've seen: Ueck has called around 2.5% of all major league baseball games ever played, including those from before radio was invented. I couldn't believe that was possible at first, but I looked into it further and the math works. Crazy.

I always like it when famous people are just regular folks, and I really liked this moment - Even a big rival player both gave and received a great deal of respect for/from Ueck:

"Stop callin' me mister!"

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Juuuuuuust a bit outside.

I have used that line more times than I can count...to the point that my wife has started using it, not really knowing where it came from.

That seems to have been one of his more memorable lines, lots of people talking about it:

Another was his "I must be in the front row!" from a Miller Lite commercial:

FWIW, there are two statues of Bob Uecker at Miller Park (I still can't call it "American Family Field"): One outside the stadium in a place you might expect, and one sitting in the last row of the upper deck, and the seats in this area are called "Uecker Seats" and are sold for just $1.00:



And this is what fans left at the ground-level statue yesterday - Flowers and cans of Miller Lite:

 

[JackL-3J]

FWIW, there are two statues of Bob Uecker at Miller Park (I still can't call it "American Family Field") . . ..

County Stadium.