 Bob Euker has called the fourth most games on radio and baseball history. He's trailing the retired Ben Scully. Ben did it 67 years. Another Dodger icon, Jamie Jaron, 62 years and running. I should say Jaime Jaron. Kansas City's Denny Matthews, 52 years and counting. And Bob is ready for his 50th year calling Brewers Games in Bob Euker. Mr. Baseball joining us on the program. Hi, Bob, how are you? And you son, how you doing? I'm doing OK. No pressure on you other than I wanted to have some fun with baseball and there hasn't been anything fun with baseballs of late. So how are you doing? How's your morale? I'm doing OK. I'm glad we're going back to work. And it'll be my 60-50 year overall in baseball. You know, as a player, if you want to say that. And of course, calling the games here in Milwaukee, I worked a couple of... I worked a couple of seasons with the Braves, with Milo Hamilton and Ernie Johnson before Bud brought me back to... Bud Saley brought me back to Milwaukee. But other than that, I'm hanging around and I'm waiting to go back to work. I just saw where your official batting average in your career was $199.7. I, you know, that I couldn't... A lot of my sponsors would be upset if they dropped below $200. Because at that time, it tied me with another sports grade averaging $200 or better for a 10-year period. And that was all came over Don Carter. Oh, I don't want to blow that off. But were you the Mendoza line before the Mendoza line, Bob? Well, yeah, but she's got a job in baseball now. I think she works for the Mets, doesn't she? That's a different Mendoza. Oh, OK. And tell me if this is right. Did you get traded? Did your baseball career get extended because you were a good clubhouse guy? Yeah, I mean, laundry has got to be done, man. There's, I mean, for a couple of extra bucks a month, I was making I was making below the minimum, you know that. And and selling other players equipment got me a couple of bucks doing laundry. There's a lot of things that you can do without playing. I actually thought it was an infringement when they asked me to play a game. But but I thought you got traded to the Cardinals because you were going to back up Macarver and you might have had a better arm, but they liked your personality. Is that and and I think armwise, I had one on each side, which was fine, but yeah, to back up, Timmy, who's remained a great friend. And of course, you know, we win a World Series that year when I got traded to St. Louis and I'm not I'm not going to say anything. They didn't win one before when I got there. So something had to be working right when you when you were first went on on Carson, first time you were on there, were you still playing baseball? No, I was I was done. And as a matter of fact, the first show I did with Johnny was in New York. They had moved to the West Coast yet. I think it was in 1970, maybe 69 or 70. How'd you end up on the show? I had been friends with a great trumpeter, one of the legendary Trumpeters of all time, Al Hurt, and I did a couple of jobs with him. I was traveling. Alex Karris was a guy that I worked with. He was there because he was a great player. And I was I was the wind up speaker. But I did a couple of jobs with Al Hurt and he told me he was going to get me on a tonight show. And I said, oh, yeah, sure. Well, I got a call from the tonight show about two weeks later. And I went to New York. I had a I had auditioned with a talent guy and he I went to his office and he said, what do you do? I said, nothing. I'm here to let me see some of your stuff or let me hear what you're going to talk about. So I did a couple of things. He told me, we'll call you back two weeks later. They called me back to New York and I did the show with Johnny. And I remember the one thing that was funny about it, Dan, was at the end of the show when, you know, the same good night and everything, I heard Johnny say to Ed, after we we said, good night, did that guy really play baseball? Ed said, I think so. I went back two weeks later and did another one. And then I got to be kind of a pretty regular, you know, with with Johnny, we had a great relationship. And I did what I still do with Doc Severington. And, you know, a lot of the guys in the band, I would go over and do a tonight show when we were playing in Anaheim, when the Brewers were playing in Anaheim, I would go over and do a tonight show and then come back. I'd get back maybe in the third inning. And some of the bad guys would come up and sit in the booth at the ballpark. So it was, I had a great time with the night shows all the time. How did that change your life? Well, it raised my salary by $220 a month. That was the big thing. But I had a pension, you know, the Screen Actors Guild. So I wasn't worried about baseball anymore. But I did, you know, I stuck around baseball for six years, I guess. Had a great time doing it, made great, you know, really great friendships, including yourself. And your crew there, but all of those, you know, if I ever had a good year, it would really screw me up later. I couldn't, there were a couple of times I got off to good starts, I had to go in the tank. Well, yeah, nobody, there's nothing funny about getting off to a good start. You know, like batting 225 is not funny, but 197, that's funny. Exactly, exactly. And, you know, sitting in the other team's dugout was not always all that pleasant, but I was still at the game. Wearing a road uniform at home. And Carson introduced you one time, when you think of great baseball players, a lot of names come to mind. Bob Euker is not one of them. Right. And he called you Mr. Baseball. Yeah, and that kind of stuck around. He, I have a great picture at home here of him, Elston Howard and Roger Merris in New York and Mickey, all with Johnny. And he, he's got a Yankee uniform on and it looks awful on him, the way he's wearing it, the socks are, you know, down on the ground. But he's with them and he had a glove on. I think he tried to throw batting practice to those guys at Yankee Stadium. Really? Yeah, oh yeah. He was a great guy to work with. Dan, and like I said before, I always had a great time with him. He treated me, I never got bumped off the show. You know, I always stayed on and somebody else got bumped. But we had a good relationship. Matter of fact, I went out to the University of Nebraska. He built a, he built a studio and a really nice building out there for, you know, people who want to get involved in movies, television, whatever it may be. And I went out there as part of the opening with that with our owner, Mark Attenasi, was a matter of fact. And had a great time. They did a lot of shows, you know, tonight's show is that Johnny, I could break his chops, man. I could make him laugh. I just saw one on, somebody just sent me one of me in, it was a picture of me and Bob Gibson holding hands. I love that picture. So that's the team picture. So Gibson was in on the joke, the team picture with the Hall of Fame picture. You're holding hands with Bob Gibson, who seemed like a very serious guy. He was really good. He was a great friend. As the guy was getting ready to shoot the photo, I just reached over and grabbed his hand and we both started laughing and they took a picture. It was really good. I love it. We're talking to Bob Euker, his 50th year with the Brewers. And people should know, like you did have some legitimate moments there. You homered off Sandy Kofax. Yeah. I mean, that's real at Dodger Stadium, right? Yeah, but I, you know, every time I see him, I apologize. I always thought that was gonna keep him out of the Hall of Fame. I was really worried about that. Is that why Sandy doesn't do interviews is because he gave up the homerun to you? That's part of it, yeah. I don't know why I hit him fairly well. I really don't. Maybe it was, I don't know, probably 530 instead of 8 o'clock. Well, you didn't want those shadows if Kofax was on the mound. That'd be trouble. Did you, did you have to audition for the role of Harry Doyle and Major League? No, you know, I was doing a game in Chicago against the White Sox with the Brewers and a security guy came in and said there's two guys outside want to talk to you. So when I got off from my innings off, I went out in the hallway at Olkomiski Park and Chris Chester and David Ward were there and they had this script for the movie and asked me if I would consider doing it. So I said, I'll look at it, which I was gonna do it anyway, whether it was good or bad. But I looked at it and read it and they told me, you know, you do whatever you want. You do the script, do your stuff, do whatever you want. And I did and I had a good time. You know, I met a lot of good people and the movie did good and Major League II, Major League III was on airplanes the day after we finished, it was terrible. Yeah, did you know at the time when you did the first Major League that it was gonna be good? You know, it had some really funny stuff in it and watching, I met Charlie Sheen the first night, the Brewers came back from a road trip and they had already set up County Stadium for the movie and David asked me if I'd go in and say hello to Charlie Sheen, he wanted to say hello. So I went in his trailer and talked to him for a while and then when I watched him throw, I mean, he threw pretty good, he really did. And watching Tom Berenger work behind the plate and Stevie Eger deserved a lot of credit for that too because he really worked with Tom. But you know, the script was kind of funny. I didn't use any big time curse words, I was kind of shocked when I heard the first one, but other than that, you know, they kind of let me do what I wanted. I did their stuff and then they made the picks. Yeah, there's great stuff in there. But just a bit outside was a natural man. I mean, you know, I'm doing a radio game, you're looking at a movie, but you know, when you're on radio, Dan, you can do anything you want, nobody can see it. Were you ever a beer guy on the air like Harry Carey was? No, not really. I was into Jack Daniels. The team was, it depended on how bad the team was that year, what you were drinking. Oh, the team was at the airport a lot of times. I was still doing the game. But I remember listening to Joe Nuxall. And Joe Nuxall, you know, God rest his soul, he'd always say the old left hand a rounding third heading for home. He spilled his beer on his scorecard one night when I was listening to him and Marty Brenman. And it was just so funny. Cause we don't, we're listening on the radio and Joe spills it. He's not, he's not describing what he just did. And you just hear him like he's mad. And it's, you know, Marty Brenman's trying to call the game. And then they eventually got around to, you know, Joe had spilled his beer on his scorecard there. Oh, they were, they were, they were a great team, Dan. I, I, you know what his name for me was Blatsy. Remember, remember Blats beer? Blats beer? That's what he drank. Oh God, my dad drank Blats. Yeah, I called him Blats. I never called him. No, I called him Blats his whole life. He's a great friend too, man, what a guy. Great team. Great team. I'm going to miss Marty this year. Yeah, Hall of Famer. On a serious note, you know, this, this virus here, Bob. Yep. How concerned, how concerned are you? Well, I am, I'm, I, you know, I feel bad, Dan, for all the people that got furloughed. I don't care if it's baseball or anything else. People that I've worked around here at the ballpark for a, for a lot of years and, and got furloughed. And I, I, you know, I got furloughed when I was in the army. Um, that was, that was about it for me. And I was on our side too. I want that out. But, but it's, it's sad when I, when I see what's happening. We're going back to work on a very limited basis. Um, my partner, Jeff Levering and Lane Grindel will be totally separated. We all be separated by a big piece of plexiglass in the boot. And you know what our boot looks like in Milwaukee. So, and the engineer will be separated from us. Um, it's, I have to go in a whole, there's a whole different set of rules to do this stuff. You know, you got to be tested every other day, I guess. Matter of fact, I'm going to get tested tonight. Um, my wife and I and, and, um, our trainer, Roger Kaplinger is going to do that. Um, but, you know, I get, I get a second look a lot of times because I, I go into a store once in a while and I'm, I'm wearing my catcher's mask. I don't know if that's approved by the, uh, CDC there. Well, it, it saves the pain from a punch because there's a lot of people still living that saw me play. Uh, do you think you would have done steroids if they were around? Um, I, I, maybe, I don't think so. I don't think so. Suppositories, maybe, uh, no, not steroid. No. Does your wife, do, do people get straight answers out of you? Sometimes. I feel okay. That's what I figured. You've never been arrested. Oh, yes, I have. Really? Yeah, I got two hits in a game. Uh, well, it'd be great to have you back and, uh, thanks for, uh, just putting a smile on some people's faces today. You kids. Great to talk to you. I appreciate it. Hello to all your gang there and thanks to you. Thank you, buddy. Bob Uker. Mr. Baseball there.