Recalling the story in an interview with friend and fellow broadcasting legend Bob Costas in recent years, Uecker said there ...
After all these years, we realized that the 1964 Martin Tiger baseball team was the last Martin team sanctioned by the University Interscholastic League (UIL) to fly the iconic red "L" on our caps ...
Jackie Robinson played in Louisville before he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier. He also came to Kentucky for the March on Frankfort.
The tuba incident from 1964 was just another example ... It was classic Ueck even before he became Mr. Baseball and a pop culture star. It's one of the many iconic moments from Uecker's life ...
He died Thursday at 90. Here's more about the time Uecker traded his baseball glove for a tuba: It was Oct. 8, 1964, and the Cardinals were looking to go up 2-0 in the series against the New York ...