sentences:  Cardinals' utility catcher Bob Uecker was sometimes called upon to catch when Schultz was brought in to pitch.It was from that experience that Uecker drew some of his material when joking about the difficulties of catching the knuckler.In between, Schultz played winter ball in Venezuela for the Gavilanes de Maracaibo club of the Western Professional Baseball League, where he won seven consecutive strikeout titles from 1954 through 1960.