27 Facts About Bob Uecker

Robert George Uecker is an American former Major League Baseball player and current sportscaster, comedian, and actor.

Facetiously dubbed "Mr Baseball" by TV talk show host Johnny Carson, Bob Uecker has served as a play-by-play announcer for Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts since 1971.

Bob Uecker was honored by the National Baseball Hall of Fame with its 2003 Ford C Frick Award in recognition of his broadcasting career.

Bob Uecker grew up watching the minor-league Milwaukee Brewers at Borchert Field.

Bob Uecker signed a professional contract with his hometown Milwaukee Braves in 1956.

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Bob Uecker made his Major League Baseball debut as a catcher with the club in 1962.

Bob Uecker often joked that the best way to catch a knuckleball was to wait until it stopped rolling and pick it up.

Bob Uecker played for the St Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies before returning to the Braves, who had by then moved to Atlanta.

Bob Uecker called the 1982 World Series locally for the Brewers on WISN in Milwaukee.

Bob Uecker finally signed a contract in 2021, in order to be covered under the Brewers' health insurance plan after cuts to his SAG-AFTRA benefits for acting work.

Bob Uecker appeared in a series of commercials for the Milwaukee Admirals of the American Hockey League in the mid-1990s, including one in which he re-designed the team's uniforms to feature a garish plaid reminiscent of the loud sports coats synonymous with Bob Uecker in the 1970s and 1980s.

In March 1987, Bob Uecker appeared at World Wrestling Federation's WrestleMania III in Pontiac, Michigan, as the ring announcer for the pay-per-view's main event of Hulk Hogan versus Andre the Giant.

Bob Uecker returned in 1988 at WrestleMania IV as a ringside announcer, commentator during the opening Battle Royal and backstage interviewer.

Bob Uecker made some 100 guest appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.

Bob Uecker appeared in a number of humorous commercials, most notably for Miller Lite beer, as one of the "Miller Lite All-Stars".

Bob Uecker authored two books, an autobiography titled Catcher in the Wry, and Catch 222.

Bob Uecker was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in 2001.

Four years later, on May 12,2009, Bob Uecker's name was added to the Braves Wall of Honor inside American Family Field.

Bob Uecker was inducted into the Celebrity Wing of the WWE Hall of Fame in 2010, honored for his appearances at WrestleMania III and WrestleMania IV.

Bob Uecker was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2017.

Bob Uecker threw out the first pitch in the game against the New York Mets.

Bob Uecker has had a number of acting roles in ads, TV shows and movies.

Bob Uecker appeared in a series of Miller Lite commercials starting in the 1980s.

In one commercial from that decade, Bob Uecker was seen preparing to watch a baseball game when an usher informs him he is in the wrong seat.

Bob Uecker was the voice of the "head of Bob Uecker" in the Futurama episode "A Leela of Her Own".

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Bob Uecker received the role not because of his broadcasting history with the Brewers but because of his popular Miller Lite commercials.

In 2021, Uecker made a guest appearance in the Disney+ series Monsters at Work where he voiced a parody of himself named "Bob Yucker".