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.
BOB UECKERI spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.
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On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.
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I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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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 had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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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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Career highlights? I had two – I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.
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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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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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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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Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.
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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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You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
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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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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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