With the Super Bowl out of the way and March Madness on the horizon, we’re clearly on the way to a new season of baseball. It ...

The late Bob Uecker's reach extends well beyond Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts. Let's run down his pop-culture ...

In 1964, he was the backup catcher behind another future broadcasting legend, Tim McCarver, on the team that won the World Series. In a St. Louis Baseball Writers' Association panel discussion in ...

He showed up in the same box scores as Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Warren Spahn, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Joe Torre, Dick Allen, Jim Bunning, Tim McCarver, Ferguson Jenkins, Felipe Alou and Phil Niekro.

200/.293/.287 with 14 home runs. Uecker won a World Series ring as a member of the 1964 St. Louis Cardinals while, coincidentally, serving as Tim McCarver's backup. (The late McCarver would go on ...

Uecker was fined $265 for the stunt. As for the Series itself, Uecker once said he "sat his way through it" — starting catcher Tim McCarver played every inning of the seven-game set. Uecker's ...

However, he served as a backup catcher for Tim McCarver and the 1964 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. He hit a bomb that season, his lone home run of that campaign for the Redbirds. At the ...

In 1964, with Uecker as the backup to Tim McCarver, his Cardinals won a tight National League pennant race by coming from 10 games back and then beat the Yankees in a seven-game World Series.

He hit .200 over his six seasons playing catcher with the Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals, where he won a World Series as Tim McCarver's back-up behind the plate in 1964.

He served as the backup to starting catcher Tim McCarver, who also went into broadcasting after his playing career. We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Hall of Famer and baseball icon ...

Scheduled for Saturday, May 10, 2025, at the historic St. Louis Union Station Hotel, An Evening with the Blues will bring together hockey fans, community members, and supporters for a night of ...