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Bob Uecker, Baseball Broadcaster and ‘Major League’ Star, Dead at 90

Bob Uecker, the Milwaukee Brewers announcer whose humorous banter in the broadcast booth brought him to show business, has died at the age of 90.

Milwaukee Brewers' longtime radio voice was a late-night TV favorite, a Miller Lite pitchman, a Mr. Belvedere co-star, and a Baseball Hall of Famer Bob Uecker, the longtime Milwaukee Brewers announcer whose humorous banter in the broadcast booth made him a late-night TV favorite and an occasional actor, has died at the age of 90. Following an admittedly mediocre career as a professional baseball player — including a brief stint with the then-Milwaukee Braves — the Milwaukee-born Uecker was hired as the Brewers’ radio announcer in 1971, a year after the team’s inaugural season.

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