Jan262016
Bob Uecker interviewing Craig Counsell at Miller Park (Photo by Dirk Lammers)
Bob Uecker interviewing Craig Counsell at Miller Park (Photo by Dirk Lammers)

Bob Uecker interviewing Craig Counsell at Miller Park (Photo by Dirk Lammers)

Happy birthday to “Mr. Baseball” Bob Uecker, who once played in a no-hitter.

I got to interview Uecker at Miller Park last summer while researching my book Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders, which is set for release on March 15.

We talked a lot about the right way to call a no-hitter as a broadcaster (he’s in the you have to tell listeners what’s happening camp) but he also joked about playing catcher for the Atlanta Braves in Don Wilson’s Houston Astros no-hitter at the Astrodome in 1967, Uecker’s final season in the majors. Uecker struck out and flied to left for the Braves in that June 17 game before being lifted for an eighth-inning pinch hitter.

“I did my part,” he said.

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Author: Dirk Lammers

Dirk Lammers is a veteran journalist who began rooting for the New York Mets in the early-1970s when the team’s no no-hitter count was barely 2,000 games old. Lammers has since turned his research into Baseball’s No-Hit Wonders: More Than a Century of Pitching’s Greatest Feats (Unbridled Books) and NoNoHitters.com, where he maintains the Internet's largest archive of no-hitter information.

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