Hometown window washer recalls Uecker signing baseball bat

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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Baseball legend Bob Uecker was down to earth and loved to talk to people. He had even formed a decades-long relationship with the company who washed the windows of his house.
CBS 58 talked to Jeff Klass, owner of First Klass Window Cleaning Inc. He said he never liked to ask Bob for an autograph, so his workers bought him a bat that already had one.
"And looked at it, and then just shook his head," said Klass. "My crew was mortified, I was mortified. He said, 'I never signed that!'"
Klass tells us Bob saw the signature and it said, "Mr. Baseball." Bob told him, "I would never write that."
"Sitting at his kitchen table, with our squeegees on and whatever, he grabbed a Sharpie and turned the bat and signed underneath the fake signature," Klass said.
The bat now has a place about Klass' basement bar. He says it's a story he loves telling people.
Klass also said he would talk to Bob about everything but baseball, and Bob would ask how his family's doing and catch up with him on the job.