Brewers unveil patch they may put on on their uniforms to honor Bob Uecker

MILWAUKEE – The Milwaukee Brewers have unveiled a patch they may put on on their uniform this season to honor longtime broadcaster Bob Uecker, who died final month.

The patch will seem on the sleeve of the Brewers’ uniforms. It options Uecker’s signature over a gold-and-navy plaid print to honor the varied sportscoats he sometimes wore.

The patch was launched Monday and can make its debut when the Brewers open their preseason schedule Feb. 22 by going through the Cincinnati Reds in Phoenix.

Uecker died Jan. 16 on the age of 90. He had accomplished his 54th season of broadcasting Brewers video games final 12 months whilst he battled small cell lung most cancers.

The Milwaukee native continued broadcasting Brewers video games whilst his comedic expertise earned him common industrial appearances and starring roles within the film “Main League” and the long-running tv sequence “Mr. Belvedere.” Uecker was honored by the Corridor of Fame with the Ford C. Frick Award in 2003.

Brewers followers confirmed their appreciation for Uecker after his loss of life by placing baseballs, flowers cans of the Miller Lite beer he endorsed and numerous different mementos on the base of a statue honoring him exterior Milwaukee’s American Household Discipline.

“We miss Bob day by day, and all of the extra as we strategy our first season with out him at our aspect,” Brewers president of enterprise operations Rick Schlesinger mentioned in a press release. “Ueck was an important good friend to all of us. He was a fixture on the ballpark and in our lives. We can not fill the outlet that his absence has created, however the jersey patch will probably be a strategy to honor his reminiscence every time we take the sphere.”

The Brewers plan to carry a public celebration of life honoring Uecker someday this 12 months. Particulars will probably be introduced later.

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