A visit with "Mr. Baseball" Bob Uecker 06:46. Ever since Babe Ruth was waddling around the bases, there have been grim predictions about baseball's future: Time has passed on the national pastime ...

E ver since Babe Ruth was waddling around the bases, there have been grim predictions about baseball's future: Time has ...

Ever since Babe Ruth was waddling around the bases, there have been grim predictions about baseball's future: Time has passed on the national pastime, too leisurely, too bucolic. Last year's World ...

Bob Uecker, the legendary voice of the Milwaukee Brewers who was nicknamed “Mr. Baseball,” has died aged 90, the team announced on Thursday.

Major League Baseball is in mourning on Thursday following the death of Bob Uecker, the Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster, former catcher and beacon of comedy known as Mr. Baseball. He was 90 years old.

Uecker was with his first wife, Joyce, from 1956 to 1975. They shared four children, Leeann, Steve, Sue Ann and Bob Jr. Steve died in 2012, and Leeann died in 2022.

To many, Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker was known simply as "Mr. Baseball." He got his big break off the field after opening for Don Rickles at Al Hirt's nightclub in Atlanta in 1969.

Before serving 16 years as baseball's commissioner, Bud Selig owned the Brewers, and, in 1971, hired Uecker, misguidedly, as a scout. Selig said it is "legitimately true" that Uecker wasn't cut ...