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Bob Uecker, Mr. Baseball, Dead at 90
“Ueck was the light of the Brewers, the soundtrack of our summers, the laughter in our hearts, and his passing is a profound loss.”
“There’s no single person in this franchise’s history who has been as iconic and as important as Bob Uecker,” Jeff Levering, a member of the Brewers’ broadcast team, told ESPN. He also played a sportswriter, George Owens, on the ABC sitcom Mr. Belvedere from 1985 to 1990 and appeared in a series of Miller High Life commercials. “Bob is a terrific play-by-play man but his niche extends beyond baseball” writer Curt Smith told the Sentinel in 2003.
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