The Collected Uecker – NotGraphs Baseball

Episodes

1. 10

   Audio: Bob Uecker Would Like One or Six Beers

   While eventually only losing by a score of 7-6, the Milwaukee Brewers conceded five of the Cardinals’ seven total runs in the first inning of the clubs’ Friday night game in St. Louis (box). That the evening might be a difficult one was not lost on veteran broadcaster and muscular bodyguard of...

   May 18, 2013
2. 9

   Audio: Make Checks Payable to Bob Uecker

   Bob Uecker would like to remind the listener about the Milwaukee Braves Historical Association’s 15th Annual Testimonial Dinner, to be held on May 6th at the Potawatomi Bingo Casino and honoring former Braves Ray Crone and Frank Thomas. He would also like to embezzle a little bit. To wit: Make...

   Apr 29, 2013
3. 8

   Bob Uecker’s Totally Real Genealogy of Homer Bailey

   Most baseball fans will know that Homer Bailey is a right-handed pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds. Fewer — but still many — will know that Bailey was a seventh-overall draft pick out of a Texas high school in 2004 and appeared on Baseball America’s top-100 prospect list four times — including two...

   Jul 21, 2012
4. 7

   Audio: Bob Uecker and Dick Allen Together on Air

   Longtime readers of NotGraphs — and also anyone who’s visited NotGraphs even just once in their entire life — will know that, if the present site were to have something in the way of a patron saint, then the leading candidates for that role would be Dick Allen and Bob Uecker, the former because...

   Jun 25, 2012
5. 6

   Bob Uecker Has a Joke About Kauffman Stadium

   It’s possible that what Bob Uecker has about Kauffman Stadium is not, in fact, a joke, but rather a witticism. If not a witticism, there’s the off chance that what he has, instead, is either a sally or a bon mot. Those are all fine. Whatever you do, though, don’t believe anyone who says that […]...

   Jun 14, 2012
6. 5

   Bob Uecker Doesn’t Really Care, Turns Out

   Concerned and likely muscular reader Bryan, recognizing that the celebration of Bob Uecker is a cause worth dying and (maybe even more importantly) killing for, has alerted the editors of NotGraphs to some Audio from the Past that will help the advancement of said cause. The Greek philosopher...

   Jun 11, 2012
7. 4

   Bob Uecker Has Some Ideas About Jockey Shorts

   In what follows, radio voice of the Milwaukee Brewers Bob Uecker discusses jockey shorts and, before that, a scheme he’s developed for relieving contest entrants of their winnings. From the WTMJ Radio broadcast of Thursday’s Brewers-Cubs...

   Jun 8, 2012
8. 3

   Bob Uecker on Sunscreen and Where It Shouldn’t Go

   Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker thinks that both Usinger’s Famous Sausage and sunscreen are important things in this life. With regard to them meeting, however, his opinion is that, more or less, never the twain should — if not necessarily in those words. From the June 3rd broadcast of the...

   Jun 5, 2012
9. 2

   Audio: Bob Uecker Will Crush a Bee

   In the following clip (from the WTMJ broadcast of Saturday’s Brewers-Twins game), America learns that Bob Uecker loves three things — and only three things — as follow: 1. A Beautiful Spring Day 2. Betterment of Home and Garden 3. Swift Justice Regard:...

   May 20, 2012