Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment ...

Uecker turned his meager baseball career into humorous fodder covering games on TV and as a commercial pitchman. By Richard Sandomir Bob Uecker ... via Getty Images When Uecker accepted the ...

The world of sports lost one of the all-time voices with the passing of Bob ... the tuba, but he was standing on the warning track out in front of the leftfield bleachers that famous picture ...

By Chris Koseluk Bob Uecker ... and teammate Tim McCarver credited Uecker with keeping the club loose (the catcher shagged fly balls with a tuba before Game 2). In his final season of 1967 ...

Bob Uecker, who parlayed six laughable seasons ... and teammate Tim McCarver credited Uecker with keeping the club loose (the catcher shagged fly balls with a tuba before Game 2). In his final season ...

MILWAUKEE -- Bob Uecker was ... In St. Louis, Uecker played 40 regular-season games for the 1964 World Series champion Cardinals but didn’t appear in the Fall Classic and insisted he was iced out ...

he shagged balls in the outfield with a tuba. Thanks to Uecker and his St. Louis teammate — hall of fame picture Bob Gibson — the Cardinals ended up taking two team photos in 1964.

Recalling the story in an interview with friend and fellow broadcasting legend Bob Costas in recent years, Uecker said there ...

Bob Uecker was always up for a good time. Never mind if it would get him in a bit of trouble. The tuba incident from 1964 was just another example. Over 60 years ago, Uecker made headlines not for ...