By Richard Sandomir Bob Uecker, the clubhouse wit who turned his tales of inferiority as a major league catcher into a comic narrative that animated his second career as a sportscaster and ...

Unlike some other “cosies”, however, her books were never insipid, and were flecked with a waspish wit. She was delighted that a line from His Burial Too (1973) – “If you can’t be a good ...