Bob Uecker’s net worth: Brewers broadcaster, ‘Mr. Baseball’ dead at 90

Bob Uecker, a Milwaukee fixture nicknamed “Mr. Baseball,” has passed away at the age of 90.
As both a player and announcer, Uecker grew into a hometown icon with a national profile that few enjoy on either side of the microphone, let alone both.
The Context
Uecker, a World Series winner and Hall of Fame honoree who went on to greater success as an announcer calling the Milwaukee Brewer’s play-by-play on radio broadcasts from 1971, passed away Thursday.
His passing has brought an outpouring of love, with “RIP to the GOAT” (in reference to the Greatest Of All Time) trending on social media within an hour of the news breaking about his death. Uecker even appeared as an announcer in the Major League movies, which cemented him in the minds of sports and movie fans as the voice of baseball.
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What To Know
What was Bob Uecker’s Net Worth?
Thanks to his combined announcing and acting career, which included a stint in movies and the TV show Mr. Belvedere as well as Miller Lite commercials in the 1980s, Uecker’s net worth, revealed at the time of his passing, was estimated at $10 million.
He reportedly earned an annual salary of $2 million alone from his announcing work in later years.
Bob Uecker’s Baseball Career
Born in Milwaukee, Uecker signed for his hometown team, then the Milwaukee Braves, and played in the minor leagues for a few years before getting a chance as a backup catcher for the Braves.
He played two seasons in the majors for the Braves before being traded to the St. Louis Cardinals, where he won his World Series ring despite limited play time to only 40 games. He would move to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1966 before returning to the Braves—who had by then moved to Atlanta—to play a final season in 1967 before retiring.
His major league career lasted just six seasons during which he played 297 games. Uecker only hit 14 home runs across his major league career but managed to hit a home run off legendary Hall of Fame Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax during the 1965 season as well as Fergie Jenkins and Gaylord Perry, also Hall of Fame pitchers.
Uecker later joked that he would apologize to Koufax whenever he saw him because he had worried that his homerun hit would keep Koufax out of the Hall of Fame.

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Bob Uecker’s Broadcast Career as ‘Mr. Baseball’
Just two years out of his playing career, a chance encounter led Uecker to meet trumpet player Al Hirt, who put Uecker in touch with NBC’s Tonight Show—then hosted by Johnny Carson—after Uecker impressed him with a humorous display at a nightclub in Atlanta.
Uecker would return to the Tonight Show around 100 times. Carson would eventually bestow the now-famous moniker “Mr. Baseball” on Uecker.
That’s because Uecker, in 1971, started his career as an announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers, who had just moved to the city in 1970 after starting out as the Seattle Pilots in 1969. Renaming themselves for their new hometown, the Brewers struck gold with Uecker as the play-by-play radio announcer.
Uecker continued announcing until 2024, making him the second-longest serving announcer with the same team, with only Denny Matthews of the Kansas City Royals beating him out (having started in 1969).

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What were Some of Bob Uecker’s Most Famous Lines?
Uecker’s humor and wit immediately endeared him to local and national fans, with Uecker working as a color commentator for broadcasts on ABC in the 1970s and NBC in the 1980s. He’s also known for his self-deprecating jokes, often about his own career.
His most famous line was an almost catchphrase he would use when a player hit a home run, shouting, “Get up! Get up! Get out of here! Gone!”
He was otherwise known for great one-liners and jokes, such as his quip of his grand slam off Ron Herbel of the San Francisco Giants, “When his manager came out to get him, he was carrying a suitcase.”
Uecker once told Carson that his favorite moment of any game he played in was “watching a fan fall out of the upper deck in Philadelphia. The crowd booed.”
His delivery of the line “Juuuust a bit outside” from the movie Major League—describing a wild pitch that misses the catcher and hits the backstop—has become a much-repeated mainstay among broadcasters.
Uecker ultimately was honored by the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003 with the Ford C. Frick Award, given to a broadcaster each year for “major contributions to baseball.” Uecker was also named Wisconsin Sportscaster of the Year five times and was known as the “Voice of the Brewers.”