Story Created:
Jul 21, 2010
Story Updated:
Jul 21, 2010
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MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee Brewers have announced that Bob Uecker, the voice of the team for the last 40 years who had heart surgery in April, will return to the 620WTMJ Brewers broadcast booth at Miller Park to call games starting Friday.
Uecker will call the play-by-play with Cory Provus beginning with Friday's Brewers game with the Washington Nationals at 6:35 p.m. on Newsradio 620 WTMJ.
Doctors at Froedtert Hospital and the Medical College of Wisconsin repaired Uecker's aortic aneurysm on April 30th, and he has spent most of the last three months recovering.
Uecker will give more details about his return at a press conference at 3:00 p.m. Friday before his return to the booth.
Uecker, the longtime voice of the Brewers on Newsradio 620 WTMJ, has been behind the microphone calling Major League Baseball games for more consecutive years than almost any active broadcaster.
After a playing career that saw him behind the plate catching for his hometown Milwaukee Braves, the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, Uecker worked in the television broadcast booth on Atlanta Braves broadcasts.
In 1971, he joined Merle Harmon as the radio voice of the Brewers, and is in his 40th year behind the microphone, 38 with 620WTMJ.
Uecker's baseball broadcasting career has also given him assignments covering the World Series for both ABC and NBC.
In 2003, he received the Ford Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame for baseball broadcasting excellence.
Uecker is also well known for his many appearances on the Tonight Show, his humor-filled Miller Lite commercials, his time on the TV show "Mr. Belvedere" and his role as Harry Doyle in the "Major League" movie series.
