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.
BOB UECKERAny teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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I had chances to do that stuff, but I like baseball, I really do.
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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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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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On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.
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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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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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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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Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?
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I spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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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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If a guy hits .300 every year, what does he have to look forward to?
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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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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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I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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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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