Milwauke ? Long known for his happy-go-lucky persona, Milwaukee Brewers radio broadcaster Bob Uecker testified Monday that he has a security escort because of concern over the persistent attentions of a female admirer.

“It’s become constantly looking for Ann E. Ladd,” the Hall-of-Famer said at a Milwaukee County Circuit Court hearing on his request for a restraining order on the actions of Ladd, 45, who is also charged in criminal court with stalking him. “For the last month and a half, I’ve had three or four security people assigned to me by Major League Baseball. That’s not how I live. Most of the time, I walk around free.”

Uecker, 72, filed for the restraining order June 6 against the Prospect Heights, Ill., woman, who, he has said, began approaching him six or seven years ago. Uecker testified Monday that he had received letters from Ladd at his homes in Menomonee Falls, Wis., and Scottsdale, Ariz., as well as at Miller Park and Wrigley Field in Chicago. Four letters were submitted into evidence Monday.

“Of all the times, I’ve asked her to stop,” Uecker said. “It persists.”

Over the last two years, Uecker said, he had received a couple of letters a month from Ladd asking him to spend time with her to discuss two projects on which she wanted his assistance. Each time he denied her request.

“It’s intense. I’m trying to do baseball games, and I’m thinking about somebody else and something else going on in my life. I’m trying to have some control over it,” Uecker said.

Milwaukee Brewers broadcaster Bob Uecker testifies during a court hearing. Uecker requested a restraining order against Ann Ladd, a women who, he claims, is stalking him. The court adjourned early Monday in Milwaukee because of the holiday, and the judge kept a temporary restraining order in effect.

Uecker said he became increasingly concerned about Ladd when he received a third letter from her in April, again asking for help on the projects but this time making the request with “reverence.”

“I don’t and I didn’t want anything to do with the projects,” Uecker said. “I don’t even know what the projects are. One of them, she mentions humanitarian work. The other one is a manuscript about me. I don’t know what it is, but it’s about me.”

Uecker testified that one time in late May while the Brewers were in Pittsburgh, Ladd approached him early one morning when he emerged from his customary morning swim at a hotel pool. Wearing a bathing suit, “She said, ‘Can I at least wave at you?'” Uecker said. “‘Can I have some of your time?'”

That encounter prompted Uecker to take legal action, he said.

“I’ve seen Ann E. Ladd at the ballpark in Pittsburgh in a seat below the broadcast booth,” Uecker said. “She sits at Miller Park below the broadcast booth. … When I go to work each and every day, I’m aware that Ms. Ladd has been there, and it bothers me. I’m trying to do a baseball game without worrying about somebody else. I’m trying to have some control over it.”

The hearing was adjourned until Aug. 3 after Uecker’s nearly hour-long testimony, which was repeatedly interrupted by objections from Ladd’s attorney, Chris Stawski.

A temporary restraining order in effect bars Ladd from any baseball park Uecker is at and calls for her to stay at least 1,000 feet away from him.