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‘Take care of people’: WTMJ Hall of Fame Brewers voice Bob Uecker keeps priorities on coronavirus-delayed Opening Day
“I’m more concerned with the well being of the country, of course,” the typically jovial but now-subdued Uecker shared in an exclusive one-on-one interview with Gene Mueller on Wisconsin’s Morning News Thursday, hours before the rebroadcast of the 2019 Brewers Opening Day thriller at 6 p.m. CT on WTMJ.
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Uecker said he was extra excited for an early Opening Day on March 26, but then the pandemic truly hit America.
“When the news came that baseball may shut down, I don’t think any of us realized how bad this thing was going to be,” he shared.
“I’ve been around long enough for World War II, polio, things that came after that. I don’t think any of us were prepared for the devastation, the damage.”