Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
BOB UECKERI 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.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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Depending on the weight and model I was using at that time – I would say eight to 10 cookouts.
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I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn’t have that kinda money to put out.
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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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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When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team’s dugout and they were already in street clothes.
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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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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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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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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 think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players’ equipment.
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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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I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture.
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Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
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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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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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