Expected to broadcast the Brewers’ home opener, Bob Uecker, 90, has an unknown workload the remainder of the season.
When the Milwaukee Brewers play their home opener against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, Bob Uecker will be back in the dugout.
When the Milwaukee Brewers play their home opener against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, Bob Uecker will be back in the dugout.
It’s unclear how much of a broadcasting workload the 90-year-old Uecker will have to handle the remainder of the season.
In a message posted on social media on Wednesday, Brewers President of Business Operations Rick Schlesinger declared, “Bob Uecker calling the first pitch of the Brewers home opener is the official start of summer in Milwaukee.” “Bob plans to return to the mic on April 2 to call the game on WTMJ and the network. After that, he’ll take things day by day.”
For more than fifty years, Milwaukee baseball has been closely associated with Uecker. Uecker emerged as the Brewers’ spokesperson.
in 1971 and has continued to be a member of their broadcast team ever since, albeit in recent years he has restricted his work to home radio assignments.
Uecker was a regular on the field and in the locker room before to games last season. He even took part in the champagne-filled locker room celebration held by the Brewers following their NL Central championship victory.
In remembrance of the old Miller Lite advertisement in which he exclaimed, “I must be in the front row!” when being led to the rear of a stadium, the Brewers have honored him with two statues: one outside American Family Field and the other on the terrace level’s back row.
During that 2020 season, Uecker called baseball games for the 50th time.
From 1962 to 1967, Uecker was a major league player with the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals, and Philadelphia Phillies. However, it was during his post-playing career that he rose to prominence.
on addition to his job as a national color commentator for baseball telecasts on ABC and NBC, he became well-known for his appearances on late-night talk programs, beer commercials, and the “Major League” movie Additionally, he starred in the ABC sitcom “Mr. Belvedere,” which ran for more than a century from 1985 to 1990.
