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 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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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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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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The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.
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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 did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
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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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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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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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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 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 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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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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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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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 think I set a terrific example of ‘Don’t do this’ and ‘Don’t do that.’ And that’s one of the things that I’m most proud of.
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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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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 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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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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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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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate.
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On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.
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