Word: uecker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year while the Braves were taking batting practice, McGraw hid out of sight with a hose and periodically sprinkled then-Brave Ralph Garr, who kept staring at the sunny sky in amazement. You often get that kind of thing in baseball. Once before a game in St. Louis, Bob Uecker, then a journeyman catcher, now an ABC announcer, borrowed a tuba from a band that was playing on the field and used it to shag flies. "Everybody loved it," says Uecker. "Except the tuba player...
...maitre d'hôtel at the Ambassador, Karl Uecker, told Charach that he was ushering Kennedy by the hand toward the exit when Sirhan stepped up in front of him and began firing; the maitre d' says that Sirhan was never behind Kennedy and that the assassin's revolver was never closer to Kennedy than l ½ ft.-a fact that Charach says has not been contradicted by any other witness...