Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy is keeping a permanent version of the uniform patch players wore in honor of late play-by-play announcer Bob Uecker during the 2025 MLB season.
Murphy told reporters Friday he had gotten the patch tattooed on his arm (h/t Todd Rosiak of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).
The tattoo was done by Scottsdale artist Justin Gorelik, Murphy told reporters.
Murphy and the Brewers are currently preparing for Game 1 of the NLDS, which starts Saturday at 2:08 p.m. ET against the visiting Chicago Cubs.
Uecker played six seasons in MLB before later gaining fame as a late-night TV star. The former catcher began working the Brewers radio broadcast in 1971 and became the voice of the franchise over the next 54 years. He died in January at age 90.
The uniform patch, unveiled by the Brewers ahead of the 2025 campaign, featured Uecker’s signature over a baseball surrounded by a ring of plaid representing his trademark sportscoats.
The Brewers also honored the broadcaster by painting his signature on the field and having all players wear Uecker jerseys during a celebration of his life in August.
Last season, Uecker joined Murphy and the Brewers in the clubhouse to celebrate the Chicago Cubs loss that clinched the Brewers’ NL Central title.
“We were doing our show and I watched it with him. What’s better than that? Awesome,” Murphy told reporters last September.
This season, with Uecker gone, Murphy celebrated the Brewers becoming the first team in MLB to clinch a spot in the 2025 postseason by reading a letter to his clubhouse that he had written in the style of the late broadcaster.
The day Murphy showed his tattoo to reporters coincided with the one-year anniversary of Uecker’s final radio call for the Brewers, Rosiak noted. That took place last October during a Wild Card loss to the New York Mets.
The Brewers will hope to put together a longer postseason run in Uecker’s honor this fall, starting with Saturday’s NLDS opener against the Cubs.
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