No baseball player ever built more around a lifetime batting average of.200 than sportscaster/humorist Bob Uecker. The former catcher for three National League teams parlayed his limited on-field abilities into a lucrative second career, becoming...

Robert George "Bob" Uecker (pronounced /ˈjuːkər/, a homophone of the card game "Euchre") (born January 26, 1935 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American former Major League Baseball player, later an award-winning sportscaster, comedian and actor....

A woman once charged with stalking announcer Bob Uecker was asked to leave a Milwaukee Brewers spring training game.The baseball team notified the Phoenix police that Ann E. Ladd was at Monday's game, Police Sgt. Joel Tranter said Tuesday. A restraining order issued in September...

Today is Friday, Jan. 26, the 26th day of 2007. There are 339 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 26, 1788, the first European settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney.On this date:In 1837, Michigan became the...

The Golden Baseball League settled on punishment Friday for a public address announcer who was ejected from a minor league game for inciting criticism of an umpire: spending an inning in the ump's shoes.Mike Murray, the announcer for the independent league's Reno Silver Sox, was...

Jacque Jones hit a game-tying two-run double in the seventh and scored the go-ahead run on an error by reliever Scott Linebrink as the Chicago Cubs rallied to beat the Milwaukee Brewers 5-3 on Tuesday night.The first-place Cubs scored four runs in the seventh to...