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 ...

Uecker did not play in the World Series. Well, did not play in the games. He famously played something other than a game. “Are you talking about the tuba incident?” he asked Bob Costas during ...

He picked up a marching-band tuba that had been set down in the outfield ... In many ways I think he's the funniest man I've ever met:' Bob Uecker and Johnny Carson Hirt gave a recommendation ...

Bob Uecker, the longtime voice of his hometown Milwaukee ... While he didn't make a dent in the scoresheet, he did manage to dent a tuba. Former 5 On Your Side sportscaster Rob Jacober moderated ...

Bob Uecker, 1934-2025 “While this onetime backup catcher was ... but didn’t appear in the Fall Classic and insisted he was iced out because of “the tuba incident.” You see, there were three dixie ...

Bob Uecker with Christopher Hewett in a promotional ... with keeping the club loose (the catcher shagged fly balls with a tuba before Game 2). In his final season of 1967, Uecker was injured ...

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 ...

Bob Uecker as a Milwaukee Brave in 1963 ... He picked up a marching-band tuba that had been set down in the outfield and carried it around while shagging pop flies — sometimes into the tuba ...

He was Mr. Baseball, the voice of the Milwaukee Brewers and a Milwaukee personality who means so much to generations of Wisconsinites. Weaving play-by-play with hilarious (and often embellished ...