I was acting when I was playing baseball.
BOB UECKERI had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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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 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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I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn’t appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.
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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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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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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
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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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I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.
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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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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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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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