Baseball

Bob Uecker, whose self-depreciating humor about his unsuccessful years in major league baseball led to success in radio and television, was resting comfortably after surgery for an aneurysm of the abdominal aorta.

Uecker, 56, had surgery at Sinai Samaritan Medical Center in Milwaukee. A Milwaukee Brewer spokesman said the three-hour operation went well, and doctors found “nothing there that was unexpected.”

Uecker suffered a heart attack in February of 1989. He recently had been complaining of lower back pains, and tests revealed the aneurysm Tuesday.