1963 Topps #126 Bob Uecker
About Bob Uecker
1963 Topps #126 is a second-series card, and it catches Uecker at the thinnest moment of his playing days. He opened the year on the Milwaukee roster and hardly moved: 16 at-bats, four hits, and a June ticket to Triple-A Denver, where he steadied himself and batted .283 in 52 games. Nothing about the season suggested a long career, and it turned out to be his last with the Braves in Milwaukee. For collectors the appeal is the opposite of scarcity - an easy, affordable early-series card that is usually the first sixties Uecker a set builder actually owns.
Robert George Uecker (January 26, 1934 - January 16, 2025) grew up in Milwaukee, left a technical high school there without finishing, and enlisted in the Army in 1954, playing service ball at Fort Leonard Wood and Fort Belvoir with future Cardinals teammate Dick Groat. Out of the service he signed with his hometown Braves in 1956 for a $3,000 bonus, spent six years in their farm system, and reached the majors at 28. He caught six seasons, 1962 through 1967, for the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies, nearly always as a backup: 297 games, 146 hits, 14 home runs, 74 runs batted in, and a career average of exactly .200. He was a genuinely good receiver, finishing at .981 in the field, and he was a Cardinal when St. Louis won the 1964 World Series. Released in April 1968, he turned storytelling into a much larger second act: Milwaukee Brewers play-by-play for 54 seasons beginning in 1971, close to 100 appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show - Carson is the one who dubbed him Mr. Baseball - George Owens on Mr. Belvedere, and announcer Harry Doyle in the Major League movies. The National Baseball Hall of Fame gave him its Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting in 2003.
Sources: Wikipedia · SABR BioProject · Baseball-Reference
Graded population (PSA & SGC)
| Grader | Total | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1-4 | Auth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PSA | 1,254 | 0 | 9 | 120 | 264 | 332 | 215 | 314 | 0 |
| SGC | 613 | 0 | 2 | 20 | 55 | 134 | 166 | 232 | 4 |
Graded population — a scarcity guide, not a price. Snapshot 2026-09-24. Half-grades fold down (8.5→8), and PSA's qualified grades are counted separately from the straight-grade rows shown here.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the 1963 Topps #126 card?
It is card #126 of the 576-card 1963 Topps Baseball set, picturing Bob Uecker of the Milwaukee Braves.
How many cards are in the 1963 Topps Baseball set?
576 cards, tracked as 583 collectible states. The numbers run from 1 to 576 with no gaps and no number used twice, and seven cards carry a catalogued print variation - three checklists, the two Rookie Stars cards also printed with a "1962" heading, and the #341 Jack Baldschun and #454 Art Fowler print states - that the master set counts separately.
Sources: Trading Card Database, PSA CardFacts, Cardboard Connection, BaseballCardPedia, The Topps Archives, Baseball-Reference, the SABR BioProject and the National Baseball Hall of Fame, PSA & SGC population reports. Card data compiled and maintained by T206Cards.com. Page last updated 2026-10-03.