Johnny Carson had no idea. When the late host of “The Tonight Show” first dubbed Bob Uecker — who died Thursday at the age of 90 — “Mr. Baseball,” Carson did not know whether Uecker actually played baseball.

Whether you know him from his broadcasting work in Major League Baseball, through his appearances back in the day on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, as a television actor, for his role in Miller Lite commercials or as Harry Doyle from the movie Major League,

Bob Uecker, whose self-deprecating wit helped him parlay a mediocre baseball career into stardom as a broadcaster, actor and pitchman for beer from his hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, died on Thursday at age 90,