The Associated Press – Sports on MSN22d
Jeff Torborg, former big league catcher and manager, dies at 83
(AP Photo/Madeline Drexler, File) Jeff Torborg, the former catcher who caught Sandy Koufax's perfect game and was the 1990 AL manager of the year with the Chicago White Sox, died Sunday. He was 83.
Indiatimes22d
Los Angeles Dodgers' World Series Champion Jeff Torborg dead at 83 in New Jersey
(AP Photo/Amy E. Conn, File) The Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB ... a defensive standout who caught Sandy Koufax’s perfect game and Bill Singer’s no-hitter among his 358 games for the Dodgers, has passed ...
The New York Times22d
Jeff Torborg, Catcher of Three No-Hitters and a Manager, Dies at 83
He called every pitch of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game in 1965 ... Louis Requena/MLB Photos, via Getty Images Catchers don’t get credit for no-hitters, but Torborg understood the important ...
ESPN22d
Jeff Torborg, former major league catcher and manager, dies
Jeff Torborg, the former catcher who caught Sandy Koufax's perfect game and was the ... and went on to manage five different MLB teams. AP Photo/Amy E. Conn, File Torborg was behind the plate ...
Baseball’s brightest minds revere a reclusive engineer. No one else knows who he is
Paul Nyman's teachings are all over baseball today. But the man is absent. “He gave up,” Kyle Boddy said, “at precisely the ...
OKC Thunder Wire26d
Beloved Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker has died
Bob Uecker, the voice of the team on the airwaves for 54 years, a Baseball Hall of Famer and local, statewide and national ...
Forbes22d
Five-Time Manager Jeff Torborg Also Served As Player, Announcer
Photo by M Digirolamo/Bruce Bennett Studios ... but displayed his baseball acumen by catching the 1965 perfect game thrown by Sandy Koufax and no-hitters thrown by Nolan Ryan in 1970 and Bill ...
The Hollywood Reporter26d
Bob Uecker, Light-Hitting Catcher Turned Comic Actor and Broadcaster, Dies at 90
he recounted the time he was intentionally walked by Dodgers great Sandy Koufax. (He actually homered off Koufax once.) Bob Uecker with Christopher Hewett in a promotional photo for ABC’s ‘Mr ...
Jewish Press11d
Remembering Bob Uecker, Mr. Baseball
Uecker ended his major league playing career with a 200 batting average in 297 games. He had some big moments, including a hit off Sandy Koufax. And he could boast that he caught two of the best pitch ...
USA Today26d
Remembering Bob Uecker: Best quotes from the longtime Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster
200 hitter, known more for his shenanigans on the field than his play – although he did hit home runs off Hall of Famers Sandy Koufax ... to add a new video and photo gallery.) ...
MLB25d
'Mr. Baseball' Bob Uecker passes away at 90
Bob Uecker was a famously mediocre Major League hitter who discovered that he was much more comfortable at a microphone than home plate. And that was just the start of a second career in entertainment ...
Hindustan Times25d
Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster ‘Mr. Baseball’ Bob Uecker dies at 90
(AP Photo/Aaron Gash)(AP ... “I got an intentional walk from Sandy Koufax and I got out of a rundown against the Mets.” Uecker also befriended former Brewers owner and MLB commissioner ...