For a backup catcher with limited physical talent, Bob Uecker enjoyed a larger-than-life career in baseball and beyond – due, in large part, to an uncanny ability to laugh at himself. Uecker,

Uecker, who died Thursday at 90, used to sit in the bullpen at Connie Mack Stadium and deliver play-by-play commentary into a beer cup.

The loss of Uecker is a massive one for the baseball community (and for sports broadcasting as a while) as the legendary voice called Brewers games for over five decades. Uecker retired as the voice of the Brewers last season, over twenty years after he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.

Uecker turned his meager baseball career into humorous fodder covering games on TV and as a commercial pitchman.

Legendary broadcaster and former big-league player Bob Uecker died on Thursday at age 90, the Milwaukee Brewers announced. Uecker, best known for his larger-than-life personality and witticisms, was a player before he became a personality.

The baseball community is mourning the loss of Bob Uecker following the death of the longtime Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster at the age of 90

Actor, Dies at 90 By Bill Trott (Reuters) - Bob Uecker, whose self-deprecating wit helped him parlay a mediocre baseball career into stardom as a broadcaster, actor and pitchman for beer from his hometown of Milwaukee,

Bob Uecker, who transformed his futility as a baseball player into a successful second career as a baseball broadcaster, humorist and comic actor in television, film and commercials, died Jan. 16 at 90.

A self-deprecating legend of the broadcasting booth and the cheap seats (‘Must be in the front rowwww!’) dies at age 90