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

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 ...

Fans began to line the bottom of Uecker's statue outside the ballpark with cans of Miller Lite in a nod to the legendary ...

He was an announcer and media celebrity, but Bob Uecker might have gained more notoriety than anything else as a beer ...

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.

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” ...

Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than ...

Baseball has seen plenty of characters, but surely the all-time leader in laughs above replacement has to be the unparalleled ...

Bob Uecker was known as "Mr. Baseball." Many around the sport knew and loved the longtime Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster, who died Thursday.

When Bob Uecker stopped playing baseball in 1967, his lifelong career was really just beginning. "I was very lucky, and ...