"Mr. Baseball", Bob Uecker Passes Away At Age 90

Thursday, January 16th, 2025 -- 10:16 AM

Bob Uecker, the backup catcher turned Hollywood star, and the legendary radio voice of the Milwaukee Brewers for more than five decades, has died. He was 90.  His family revealed that he had been battling small cell lung cancer since 2023.

Nicknamed “Mr. Baseball” by “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson during one of Uecker’s 100 or so appearances on late-night TV, he starred in a popular series of Miller Lite commercials, then in the ABC sitcom “Mr. Belvedere” and in the “Major League” film trilogy. He authored two books, and hosted “Saturday Night Live” and WrestleMania.

He joined the Brewers radio team in 1971 and launched a second career in broadcasting that led to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame, the Radio Hall of Fame, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Hall of Fame, the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the National Baseball Hall of Fame as the 2003 recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award.

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