BOB UECKER, NOW 90, BEGINS 54TH SEASON BROADCASTING BREWERS GAMES

— Bob Uecker was back at American Family Field once again on Tuesday to broadcast the Milwaukee Brewers’ home opener as team officials remained circumspect about the 90-year-old’s workload for the rest of the season.

This will be Uecker’s 54th season broadcasting Brewers baseball, though he has limited himself to home games for the last several years.

“Ueck is very focused on always being at a Hall of Fame level,” Brewers principal owner Mark Attanasio said before Tuesday’s game with the Minnesota Twins. “He doesn’t want to just be in the booth to be in the booth. He’s very mindful. I say to him, ‘Ueck, you don’t have to do the play-by-play for nine innings or seven of the nine. You can do less.’ He sort of grumbles about that idea. I say, ‘You can flip roles with (Jeff) Levering and he can do play-by-play and you can do more color. He doesn’t want to talk about that. And so what he wants to do is just see how it goes this year, and we’ll see.”

Attanasio’s comments essentially echoed a statement Brewers president of business operations Rick Schlesinger had issued on social media a week earlier. Schlesinger noted that Uecker would be part of the Brewers’ radio coverage for the home opener with the Minnesota Twins and that “he’ll take it one day at a time after that.”

Uecker became the voice of the Brewers in 1971 and has been part of their broadcast team ever since. Uecker regularly makes appearances on the field and in the locker room conversing with players and coaches.

He participated in the locker-room celebration last year when the Brewers won their NL Central title, just as he had done when the team clinched its other recent postseason berths.

“It’s always great to have Ueck around,” Brewers outfielder and 2018 NL MVP Christian Yelich said. “I’ve gotten to know him fairly well over the last seven years. I think each year we’ve gotten closer. Anytime you hear from him, whether it’s via text or just seeing him in person at the ballpark, I think it makes everybody’s day better. I think he loves being around the team, and we love having him. He’s obviously a baseball legend, a Brewer legend.”