{"id":30685,"date":"2025-01-16T18:35:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/milwaukee-brewers-beloved-mr-baseball-bob-uecker-dies-at-age-of-90\/"},"modified":"2025-01-16T18:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T18:35:14","slug":"milwaukee-brewers-beloved-mr-baseball-bob-uecker-dies-at-age-of-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/milwaukee-brewers-beloved-mr-baseball-bob-uecker-dies-at-age-of-90\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers\u2019 beloved \u2018Mr Baseball\u2019 Bob Uecker dies at age of 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Uecker moved from player to successful broadcaster<\/li>\n<li>Former catcher also known for role in Major League<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who career earned the moniker \u201cMr Baseball\u201d and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90.<\/p>\n<p>The team announced Uecker died on Thursday morning, calling it \u201cone of the most difficult days in Milwaukee Brewers history.\u201d In a statement released by the club, Uecker\u2019s family said he had suffered from small cell lung cancer since early 2023.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jan\/16\/milwaukee-brewers-beloved-mr-baseball-bob-uecker-dies-at-age-of-90\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uecker moved from player to successful broadcaster Former catcher also known for role in Major League Bob Uecker, the voice of his hometown Milwaukee Brewers who career earned the moniker \u201cMr Baseball\u201d and honors from the Hall of Fame, has died. He was 90. The team announced Uecker died on Thursday morning, calling it \u201cone &#8230; <a title=\"Milwaukee Brewers\u2019 beloved \u2018Mr Baseball\u2019 Bob Uecker dies at age of 90\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/16\/milwaukee-brewers-beloved-mr-baseball-bob-uecker-dies-at-age-of-90\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Milwaukee Brewers\u2019 beloved \u2018Mr Baseball\u2019 Bob Uecker dies at age of 90\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}