In 1964, he was the backup catcher behind another future broadcasting legend, Tim McCarver, on the team that won the World Series. In a St. Louis Baseball Writers' Association panel discussion in ...

The late Bob Uecker's reach extends well beyond Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcasts. Let's run down his pop-culture ...

teammates credited Uecker and starting catcher Tim McCarver for keeping the group loose even as the standings tightened. Fifty years later, Dick Groat, a member of the Cardinals’ 1964 ...

He showed up in the same box scores as Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, Warren Spahn, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Joe Torre, Dick Allen, Jim Bunning, Tim McCarver, Ferguson Jenkins, Felipe Alou and Phil Niekro.

200/.293/.287 with 14 home runs. Uecker won a World Series ring as a member of the 1964 St. Louis Cardinals while, coincidentally, serving as Tim McCarver's backup. (The late McCarver would go on ...

In 1964, with Uecker as the backup to Tim McCarver, his Cardinals won a tight National League pennant race by coming from 10 games back and then beat the Yankees in a seven-game World Series.

The St. Louis Cardinals have had their share of great men behind the plate over the years, but five catchers stand above them all. From the stout players with big potential for power to the durable ...

However, he served as a backup catcher for Tim McCarver and the 1964 World Champion St. Louis Cardinals. He hit a bomb that season, his lone home run of that campaign for the Redbirds. At the ...

He hit .200 over his six seasons playing catcher with the Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals, where he won a World Series as Tim McCarver's back-up behind the plate in 1964.

The game was eventually decided by a two-run double from Tim McCarver in the top of the 11th inning, and he’d eventually be a part of as many baseball memories as anyone else in the game.

He hit .200 over his six seasons playing catcher with the Braves, Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis Cardinals, where he won a World Series as Tim McCarver's back-up behind the plate in 1964. "I was ...

He served as the backup to starting catcher Tim McCarver, who also went into broadcasting after his playing career. We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of Hall of Famer and baseball icon ...