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.
BOB UECKERYou throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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In 1962 I was named Minor League Player of the Year. It was my second season in the bigs.
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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 did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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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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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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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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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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Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.
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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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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without 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 was acting when I was playing baseball.
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I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel’s suitcase.
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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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