I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment.
BOB UECKERNot bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television…
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day.
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I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.
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Before broadcasting for 50-some years, I did TV, played 10 years in the big leagues, won a world championship – and played a big part in that, too, letting the Cardinals inject me with hepatitis. Takes a big man to do that.
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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‘Mr. Belvedere,’ too. We stay in touch.
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I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.
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Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.
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Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
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Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go and working in television…
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I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.
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The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game.
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How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.
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I make fun of situations and try and find the humor in things, but it’s never at the expense of the other guy.
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The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
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I had a great shoe contract and glove contract with a company who paid me a lot of money never to be seen using their stuff.
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People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.
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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.
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You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
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I always tried to stay around .190, with three or four RBI. And I tried to get them all in September. That way I always had something to talk about during the winter.
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