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The baseball world lost a legend during the low season when the legendary announcer Bob Uecker died at the age of 90.
EUCKER called games For the Milwaukee brewers since 1971 and appeared in the 1989 movie “Major League” and the two sequelae of the film.
His last game was the heartbreaking defeat of the postemporada of the brewers against the Mets in October, when Pete Alonso became the first player in the history of MLB to reach an advanced homer in the ninth entrance or later of a game of winners while his team was behind.
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The legendary radio broadcaster of the brewers, Bob uecker, recognizes the crowd before throwing the first release. The brewers played the Los Angeles Dodgers in game 1 of the National League championship series on October 12, 2018, in Miller Park in Milwaukee, Wis. (IMAGN)
Christian Yelich, who won an MVP with the team in 2018, was emotional after the loss, mainly talking about Uecker.
“For me, I was talking to Ueck,” he said at that time. “That is what is difficult. Everything else is what it is. It is a difficult way for your season to end, but talking with ‘uecky’ one by one was difficult.”
Not often the emitters have close relationships with the players, but this was an exception. And in a recent interview with Pak Gazette Digital, Yelich let us know that the presence of UECKER is definitely lost.
“I met Bob very well in the last eight years. He and I were very good friends. He had incredible stories and lived in an incredible life,” said Yelich. “Just to listen and talk about the game and be able to really be a friend of him, you know, I think I could see him in a unique light that many people necessarily did not, who really did not know him like that. He was close to almost all the games at home. He came in the Club house and passed the time and just shot the S — with the boys in lunch or really where always.
Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer, Bob Uedker, greets a player before the game against the Minnesota Twins in American Family Field. (Benny Sieu/USA Today Sports)
Kevin Gausman from the Blue Jays falls down the escalations after the expulsion of the abysmal game
“He was a friend of some of the best players in the game. He lived this incredible life, be it Johnny Carson or astronauts who called him from the space station on his birthday, being in the films of the ‘Major Leagues’, he only had stories for days, and just listening to those newspapers was really something great. Obviously, all with rookies and baseball and really all over the world, all Miss Miss He really lived an incredible free.
“What happens with Bob,” Yelich added, “when you know him for the first time, you feel that you know him forever. This is how he makes everyone feel. He simply had such an extroverted personality and made everyone feel that they are his friend. I think it was a gift that he has connected with life. He, you know, he felt that you had already known him for a long time, and then, obviously, our relationship grew. They met a little better.
Uecker was born and grew in Milwaukee and enlisted in the US Army. In 1954. He played baseball while he was in Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Belvoir. Ucker joined the organization of Milwaukee Braves in 1956 and was in the minors until they called him in 1962. His career ended five years later.
Milwaukee Brewers Bob Uhob Uecker, Bob Uecker, sits in the shelter while players train at American Family Field in Milwaukee on April 6, 2022. (IMAGN)
Uecker was an station in Atlanta before making transmissions for brewers. He called the games for 54 seasons before his death. He also worked as an issuer for ABC and NBC during the World Series and the League championship games. He called for the loss of the 1982 World Cervecer series against the cardinals for a local Milwaukee station.
