That was Seymour Stoll’s experience years ago when he drew a Sandy Koufax card at 14 years old ... Sotheby’s acknowledged having heard from Neil Keller, a baseball fan and self-described ...
A 10-year veteran of the Dodgers and Angels, Torborg caught Sandy Koufax's perfect game ... but he was released before the 1974 season and never played pro ball again. He finished his career ...
Bob Uecker "never took himself seriously" and that is what endeared him to Brewers fans and made him a Milwaukee treasure.
There will never ... Sandy Koufax after that, I apologized to him,” Ueck often joked. “I thought for sure it would keep him out of the Hall of Fame.” Speaking of the Hall of Fame, if you ...
Maybe you knew ... I never paid much attention to that stuff. I did manage to hit 14 home runs in my career, though, and a couple of them off Hall of Famers. When I see Sandy Koufax, I always ...
“Marquette didn’t have a team, but they never checked,” he said. After his time in the service, Uecker became the first Milwaukee native to sign with the Braves. “You know, I signed with ...
Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment ...
He never appeared in more than 80 games a season ... he found unlikely success against one of the game’s best pitchers, Sandy Koufax, once hitting a home run off the Los Angeles Dodgers ...
You never knew with Ueck ... Uecker once hit a home run off of Sandy Koufax, and he got a World Series ring with the Cardinals in 1964, but he shrewdly realized that baseball success wasn ...