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Let’s ask the Uecker 8-Ball some questions about the Milwaukee Brewers’ 2023 season

March 30, 2023

Back in 2017, the Milwaukee Brewers released one of the finest fan giveaways in the history of baseball: a Bob Uecker-themed magic 8-ball. Just ask the haunted hunk of hollow plastic a question, flip it over, a...

Happy birthday, Bob Uecker

Nick Olig

January 26, 2023

Updated from an original 2019 post. Happy birthday, Ueck!The ultimate Brewer happens to be Bob Uecker, which is kind of odd since he never played a game for the team. Sure, today's birthday boy drove in eig...

A Milwaukee Day ode to Bob Uecker

Matt Wild

April 14, 2022

This story was originally published in 2016.There's a picture, taken in 1964, of Bob Uecker playing a tuba. It's moments before the second game of the '64 World Series between the St. Louis Cardinals and th...

Miscellaneous Milwaukee: Uecker’s Ride For The Arts poster (1988)

Matt Wild

January 26, 2022

In Miscellaneous Milwaukee, we take a stroll through the aisles of Antiques On Pierce and unearth curious, strange, or valuable Milwaukee artifacts.TEM: UECKER'S RIDE FOR THE ARTS POSTER (with 1963 baseball...

Six degrees of separation between Bob Uecker and the most followed celebrities on Instagram

Josh Hoppert

December 28, 2021

Are you famous? No way. Like, zero chance. From what we understand, though, it's just the best: stretch limousines, fancy cocktail parties, hanging out with Steven Seagal, etc.But it can also be very taxing...

Saturday, September 25, 2021 is officially Bob Uecker Day in Wisconsin and Milwaukee

Matt Wild

September 24, 2021

What can we say about Bob Uecker that we haven't said 8,000 times before? The Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcaster is a living legend, a national treasure, an absolute delight. He's been behind the Brewers mic f...

Let’s watch Bob Uecker sing “Take Bob Uecker Out To The Ballgame” for 10 minutes

Matt Wild

May 7, 2021

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week. This week: Bob Uecker singing "Take Bob Uecker Out To The Ballgame"!• Happy F...

Bob Uecker will return to the air March 2 for Brewers spring training game

Matt Wild

February 25, 2021

Your Milwaukee Brewers will play their first spring training game on Sunday, February 28, against the Chicago White Sox. The game will be broadcast on 94.5 ESPN and the Brewers Radio Network. Speaking of radio ...

10 beautiful words: ‘Mr. Belvedere’ Zoom reunion (with Bob Uecker!) on May 29

Matt Wild

May 23, 2020

We miss baseball. We miss Bob Uecker. We miss baseball being called by Bob Uecker. If we can't have those things, we guess we'll settle for this: A MR. BELVEDERE ZOOM REUNION ON FRIDAY, MAY 29!!!!! WITH BOB UEC...

Exploring the kid-friendly, animated voice-over work of Bob Uecker

Matt Wild

April 21, 2020

The following article also appears in the April edition of Colectivo Coffee's "Off The Record" periodical/poster/crossword puzzle. Stay at home and download a PDF of this month's edition HERE.Milwaukee and ...

Memo to the Academy: Bob Uecker’s “Restaurant To Be Named Later” video is 2019’s Best Picture

Matt Wild

October 11, 2019

Every Friday, Stuff We Missed looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for, well, stuff we missed throughout the week.• Here are the facts: In December 2019, Friday's Front Row Sports Grill at Mil...

Here’s the Brewers’ 2019 (and tragically Uecker-less) giveaway schedule

Matt Wild

December 12, 2018

Baseball! Brewers! Giveaways! Is there anything better! No!So let's just cut to the chase: Here's the Milwaukee Brewers' 2019 giveaway schedule. Highlights include a Christian Yelich bobblehead (cue the Chr...

A brief history of Bob Uecker bobbleheads and all-fan giveaways

Matt Wild

August 7, 2018

Over the weekend, Milwaukee Brewers fans streaming into Miller Park were treated to a particularly delightful all-fan giveaway: a Bob Uecker Talking Bottle Opener. Finally, the time-honored act of cracking open...

Bob Uecker got up, got out of last night’s Brewers game after being injured by a contact lens

Matt Wild

July 3, 2018

UPDATE (7/5/18): Uecker is still out with a scratched eye, though Levering says he has been at Miller Park the past few days, "hanging out" and "telling stories."UPDATE (7/3/18): According to Levering, Ueck...

Here’s another 2018 Milwaukee summer festival guide, this one with more Bob Uecker

Milwaukee Record Staff

May 7, 2018

Is there anything better than summer in Milwaukee? No, no there is not. For four months out of the year, Milwaukee becomes a warm and joyous place stocked with an improbable number of summer festivals, street p...

Bob Uecker survived a deadly spider bite and he has pictures of the open wound on his phone

Matt Wild

March 23, 2018

Every Friday, Off The Record looks to other Milwaukee publications (and beyond) for bits of news we missed throughout the week.• One of Milwaukee's most hallowed traditions isn't the return of festival seas...

Bob Uecker once wrecked his buddy’s new car, and it was glorious

Nick Olig

March 7, 2018

Bob Uecker didn't hit a home run in September of 1967, but his buddy Clete did. And that was good enough for Ueck.Some background: A Honda dealership in Atlanta was running a promotion for the players in th...

Let’s ask the Uecker 8-Ball about Von Trier’s plans to remain a German bar and restaurant

Matt Wild

November 6, 2017

Back in August, Von Trier owners John and Cindy Sidoff announced they would be closing their beloved German bar and reopening it as an "upscale cocktail lounge." Milwaukee was not impressed, and demanded the Si...

Remembering the time Bob Uecker crushed an old man’s pitch for his first homer

Nick Olig

September 27, 2017

Though Bob Uecker got the call-up to the majors midway through the month of April in the 1962 season, when the time came to club his initial home run for the Milwaukee Braves, he didn't rush into it. The man ha...

The man who made mediocrity famous: Bob Uecker’s ‘Catcher In The Wry’ still delights after 35 years

Nick Olig

August 24, 2017

It may have been lost in the glory of Harvey's Wallbangers and a charge to the World Series, but on August 24, 1982, incomparable Brewers' play-by-play man Bob Uecker published his autobiography: Catcher In The...