[altair]

What is true is that the hitters rule the roost, and too many people whose love of the game goes no deeper than a Bob Uecker long ball are bent as best they can on keeping the hitters in power.

"Uecker, Uecker, Uecker, Uecker's his name; should be in the Hall Of Fame. It's the Bob Uecker show."

[BluesDuke]

You won't believe this, but there was one Hall of Fame pitcher who couldn't get Bob Uecker out with an arrest warrant. "We tried everything," lamented then-catcher Jeff Torborg. "Bob Uecker owned Sandy Koufax." (You can look it up - The Ol' Ueck hit .400 lifetime against Koufax.)