“Suddenly, we would go to cocktail parties,” Mr. Burfoot said ... In the 1950s, some professional football and baseball coaches actually forbade their athletes from heavy lifting.

There’s the Vintage Vegas area, where you can find everything from old casino playing cards to showgirl costumes. The Tech ...

A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. I STOLE THEM BOTH. YEAH. JOHNNY CARSON ACTUALLY WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE HIM THE FAMOUS MR. BASEBALL NICKNAME. UECKER MADE NEARLY 1 To many, Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker was ...

Bob Uecker parlayed a forgettable baseball career into comedic gold.

He said he got to know Uecker as soon as he was hired and formed a connection with ‘Mr. Baseball’ right out of the gate. “Best part of my job was getting to see (Uecker) every day,” Murphy ...

This is why Uecker’s nickname — Mr. Baseball — is one of the best in the history of the sport. It’s a sport of successes and failures, with more failures than any professional sport.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bob Uecker, who parlayed a forgettable playing career into a punch line for movie and TV appearances as “Mr. Baseball” and a Hall of Fame broadcasting tenure, has died.

Johnny Carson had no idea. When the late host of “The Tonight Show” first dubbed Bob Uecker — who died Thursday at the age of 90 — “Mr. Baseball,” Carson did not know whether Uecker ...

(Credit: Morry Gash/AP.) Listen Bob Uecker, known throughout the United States as “Mr. Baseball” died January 16 at the age of 90. Ten years ago, the then-Archbishop of Milwaukee Jerome E.

Bob’s a member of several halls of fame but not the National Baseball Hall of Fame following almost 60 years ...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who after a short playing career earned the moniker “Mr. Baseball” and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died.