Recent Hall of Famer to have surgery?

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MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee Brewers radio announcer Bob Uecker is scheduled to undergo heart surgery on Friday and is expected to need two to three months to recover.

The team scheduled a news conference for 4:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday at Miller Park to discuss the situation. Uecker was expected to attend, the team said.

Uecker, a Hall of Fame announcer, won a World Series ring with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964 and played in Philadelphia and Atlanta before retiring in 1967. He starred in commercials, the television sitcom "Mr. Belvedere" and in the movie "Major League," as a baseball announcer.

Uecker is in his 40th season calling Brewers games. He was honored with the National Baseball Hall of Fame's Ford C. Frick Award in 2003.

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