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Uecker ended his major league playing career with a 200 batting average in 297 games. He had some big moments, including a hit off Sandy Koufax. And he could boast that he caught two of the best pitch

Milwaukee Brewers play-by-play broadcaster Jeff Levering first shared a booth with Bob Uecker in 2015. The first 10 years of his major league career overlapped

PHILADELPHIA -- The Phillies were flying to another city in the late 1960s when Bob Uecker, then the team's seldom-used backup catcher, told the flight attendant he was sick. Uecker, who died ...

Wade began writing books to fill the time when he was away from the game. He published his second novel in November.

New York Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner admitted that "it's difficult" for MLB team owners to compete with the Los Angeles Dodgers' spending, but also believes his team is better than it was at this time last year.

Did you hear the one about the time Bob Uecker propelled the St. Louis Cardinals to the 1964 World Series? First, let’s set the scene before we get too far ahead of ourselves.

A former Philadelphia Phillies general manager and Cleveland Indians legend Kenny Loften are among a group of people who will launch Sluggball, a baseball version of Topgolf, in May, they announced Wednesday.

Bob Uecker’s professional baseball career began when he signed with his hometown team, the Milwaukee Braves, in 1956. Uecker often joked that when the Braves signed him for $3,000, his family had to dig through the couch cushions and jars to scrape together the money.

Former Phillies outfielder Gary Matthews, a the keynote speaker at the 63rd Annual Reading Hot Stovers Banquet, has a wealth of stories from his Major League baseball career. From earning the 1983 NLCS move valuable player award to playing catch with former U.S. eresidents at the White House, his experiences are truly worth a listen.

As a tribute to Uecker's 54 years as the voice of the Brewers, admission to this special screening will be $5.40.

I turned 13 during 1967’s Summer of Love. There was no time more eventful for a red-blooded American boy to become a teenager. A cultural phenomenon was