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If Bob Uecker were a better scout and cleaner with his mashed potatoes and gravy, he might never have made it to the broadcast booth. “In January of 1971, he and I went out together after the ...
"And Ueck, really to the end, was a ballplayer. Commissioner (Bud) Selig would tell me, 'Bob's a ballplayer,' so he really wouldn't meet with me. Wendy Selig-Prieb really pressured him.
For the advertisements to happen, Uecker and Brewers owner Allan H. "Bud" Selig had to discuss the idea with Pabst, the beer company that sponsored the Brewers at the time.
“I think Bud Selig seen something in his personality and seen the way Bob loved the game and what he was willing to give back to the game,” Augustine, the former pitcher and TV analyst, said ...
“George Steinbrenner made him an offer and he cleared it through Bud Selig, who was the owner of the Brewers at the time. And then Ueck ultimately declined because he was Milwaukee through and ...
Milwaukee, though, was always home and Uecker return to the city where he became a scout for the fledgling Brewers franchise, which Bud Selig had brought to town after a one-year run as an ...
Selig hired Uecker as the team’s announcer, and the two had a long affiliation, and Selig had great admiration for Uecker. “We were two Milwaukee kids,” Selig said.
Uecker's decades-long relationship with the Brewers started back in 1971, when then-owner Bud Selig hired the so-so catcher and so-so scout. CBS 58 spoke with Selig on the phone Thursday from Arizona.
"The profoundly sad Bud Selig, I talked to him today down in Arizona, and he said Bob Uecker made himself into a great broadcaster," Haudricourt said.
Bud Selig, former Brewers owner, MLB commissioner emeritus and faculty member of Arizona State’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, was very close to Uecker and released a statement on his ...
"Bob Jr is OK with us to do a big celebration for Bob. We have other ideas. We would think about doing something like the (Bud) Selig Experience for Bob. That, we've been working on for a while ...