People have asked me a lot of times, because I didn’t hit a lot, how long a dozen bats would last me.
BOB UECKERI saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
More Bob Uecker Quotes
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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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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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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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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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After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
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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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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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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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Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
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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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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 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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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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I had slumps that lasted into the winter.
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