(670 The Score) The Brewers honored the life and legacy of the late Bob Uecker on Sunday at American Family Field in Milwaukee.
Uecker, who died in January at the age of 90, was a legendary baseball broadcaster and an icon in Milwaukee. He was close with Cubs manager Craig Counsell, a longtime player and manager with the Brewers.
Counsell shared with the Spiegel & Holmes Show on Wednesday what he took from the late Uecker.
“He became like a celebrity, he was a TV star, but then he came back to baseball,” Counsell said. “I think he taught you to love the daily routine of baseball. It’s one of the things that I always admired about him so much. Throughout his whole 80s, he came to the park every day to go to work and did the routine that a Major League Baseball season kind of requires you to do.
“The great part and the difficult part about being a baseball fan or working in baseball is just the daily routine. It’s a lot, right? It’s a lot of hours, it’s a lot of games, but it’s also the great part about it. And I think Bob always taught me to just love and enjoy that part of it, the daily routine of it and getting to interact with your friends, your co-workers, your opponents even. Bob was great at that. He thoroughly enjoyed it. He loved it. And he found out a way to make it fun for every interaction you had with him.”
The Cubs play the second game of their series with the Giants on Wednesday night at Oracle Park in San Francisco.