RIP Bob Uecker

[dixiehack]

Baseball just got less fun.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

Hope he is able to get a seat in the front row up in heaven now ...

 

[Gutter]

In tears as I type this. I just had a bad feeling listening to him sign off from the Game 3 heartbreaker that he might not see Opening Day and he just called his last game. You could tell it in his voice.

I have more to say about what Bob meant to my childhood. I'll post it later.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Sixteen days in and I already hate 2025.

I read his book Catcher in the Wry as a junior high kid and always wanted to visit Craters of the Moon, Idaho.

RIP to an authentically funny guy.

 

[dixiehack]

I turn 50 this year and it was a long time, like a really long time before I ever knew he did games on the radio. It may not have been until I got an XM radio, started scanning through games one night and … huh, that’s Bob Uecker! And he’s good at this! And it isn’t a full-time comedy routine.

 

[Scout]

Juuuuuust a bit outside.

RIP

 

[jr/shotglass]

Aw, Uke.

It's hard to add anything to what's already been said. RIP.

 

[garrow]

An inspiring person. RIP.

Here he is with Tip O'Neill.

 

[Liut]

He loved his hometown and state, and the people loved him back.
May he and Jim Irwin toast a brandy in Heaven.
RIP Mr. Baseball

 

[hondo]

The hell with it.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Forever in the front row.

Rest now, sir.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Cross him off then.

 

[Songbird]

If you love baseball you loved Ueck.

 

[Kato]

I was 10 years old in 1982. The Brewers were on TV maybe once a week, probably less. So it was radio almost every night in the summer following that wonderful, fun team through Uecker's call. Sure, he was on Carson and had Mr. Belvedere and Major League, but there was nothing like him telling stories -- interrupted perfectly with pitch calls -- on the radio.

 

[Matt1735]

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Uecker on Carson in response to a question from Johnny. "My first contract with the Cardinals was for $500. It wasn't much, but it was all my parents had."

 

[nietsroob17]

Surely greeted with a nice embrace from Andre at the pearly gates.

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Uecker on Carson in response to a question from Johnny. "My first contract with the Cardinals was for $500. It wasn't much, but it was all my parents had."

I’ve read the Carson was surprised to learn Uecker actually played baseball. He thought it was just an act.

 

[I Should Coco]

Sad to see this. His self-deprecating sense of humor belied his deep knowledge of baseball and how good he was as a broadcaster.

The MLB landscape just got more boring and less fun. RIP Bob.

 

[nietsroob17]

I was 10 years old in 1982. The Brewers were on TV maybe once a week, probably less. So it was radio almost every night in the summer following that wonderful, fun team through Uecker's call. Sure, he was on Carson and had Mr. Belvedere and Major League, but there was nothing like him telling stories -- interrupted perfectly with pitch calls -- on the radio.

That acceptance speech was one of the greatest ever uttered at Cooperstown. His and Buck O'Neil's right around that time.