You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
BOB UECKERBefore 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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When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
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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 saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
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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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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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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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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.
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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 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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On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.
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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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I was acting when I was playing baseball.
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