Today you don’t have to do that, because catchers’ mitts are more like first baseman’s gloves.
BOB UECKERI 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.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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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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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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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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Baseball hasn’t forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven’t lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
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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 spent three of the best years of my life in 10th grade.
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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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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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You know, I was once named Minor League Player of the Year… unfortunately, I had been in the majors for two years at the time.
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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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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball.
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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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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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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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