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.

Not only was Bob Uecker, or “Ueck,” talented enough to be enshrined in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York for his broadcasting, he possessed the rare gift of being able to make millions of people laugh.