By TODD GOLDEN ''Special to Fastball on SI'' Back in October, I was driving back to my Bloomington, Ind., home from Big Ten Basketball Media Days in Chicago. A ...

Bob Uecker, who died Jan. 16, was not only a baseball player, but a comedic actor in roles including the movie "Major League.

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He earned the nickname "Mr. Baseball" for what the self-mocking funny man did off the field rather than on it.

Sure, we'll know him as the voice of Brewers baseball forever, but we'll always have a career full of laughs from Ueck, as well.

As high-profile as his appearances were in places like calling Brewers games, on The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson, the ...

Uecker left us with so many smiles that I wanted to pay tribute to his amazing baseball life with this collection of fun facts.

Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker “Mr. Baseball” ...

Major League Baseball lost one of its leading voices on Thursday when Milwaukee Brewers play-by-play announcer Bob Uecker passed away at the age of 90.

Whether you know him from his broadcasting work in Major League Baseball, through his appearances back in the day on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as a television actor, for his role in Miller ...

Bob Uecker has died. Although best known for his legendary stint as the play-by-play radio announcer for the Milwaukee ...

Some would say that Bob Uecker had a pretty average baseball career, but he really became a superstar during his media career.