4/30 22:00: Brewers radio broadcaster Bob Uecker underwent successful heart surgery Friday in Milwaukee’s Froedtert Hospital, the team announced.

The procedure lasted six hours. Uecker will now remain hospitalized for about five to seven days, and a full recovery is expected to take 10-12 weeks, the release stated.

“As of 2:30 pm [CT], Bob is out of surgery and in the ICU,” said Dr. Alfred Nicolosi, who performed the surgery. “We are pleased that Mr. Uecker’s surgery went smoothly today. We replaced his aortic valve, aortic root and part of his ascending aorta. We also did a coronary bypass on one vessel.”

Our best wishes and a speedy recovery goes out to Bob Uecker from the PRO Rumors nation!

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4/27 12:24: Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker is scheduled to have heart surgery on Friday and expected to miss 10-12 weeks. The team has called a press conference at 3:30pm CT to make a formal announcement.

Uecker may be best known for those that aren’t baseball fans as the TV dad of the T.G.I.F. show Mr. Belvedere. Uecker also was the announcer in the Major League movie franchise who said the famous quote, “just a bit outside.”

Our prayers go out to Uecker. We hope for a speedy recovery!

Information from Adam McCalvy of MLB.com was used in this article.