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MILWAUKEE (AP) - It began six or seven years ago, with a stream of flowers, baseball cards and teddy bears arriving in the mail.

The last straw came last month: a confrontation at a hotel pool in Pittsburgh.

Now Bob Uecker wants Ann Ladd to stay away.

The 71-year-old Uecker, the longtime and beloved radio broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers, has filed for a restraining order against Ladd, of Prospect Heights, Ill. Felony stalking charges have been filed against the 45-year-old Ladd, who was arrested in Illinois on June 22 and brought to Milwaukee.

Wednesday, Ladd was released on bond and ordered to have no contact with Uecker, and to avoid any ballpark where the Brewers play. If convicted, Ladd could face up to 3 1/2 years in prison and a $25,000 fine.

Uecker, who has not commented publicly on the case, did not respond to an interview request from The Associated Press. Uecker's attorney, Andrew Wronski, declined comment.

But in court documents, Uecker says that Ladd's "unwelcome contact is regular and increasingly aggressive," and the hotel incident "put him in fear of his physical safety."

One of Ladd's attorneys, Christopher Stawski, says Ladd's actions don't meet the legal definition of stalking.

"You have to show this kind of bad intent behind it, and I don't think what she did qualifies," Stawski said.

Court documents describe an unsettling string of contact and correspondence from Ladd, but there's nothing to rival a recent stalking case involving tennis player Anna Kournikova. Last year, a naked man tried to swim across Miami's Biscayne Bay to Kournikova's estate and ended up at the wrong house yelling, "Anna, save me!"

Given Uecker's image as someone famous for being not famous — he used self-deprecating humor to turn a below-average baseball career into success as a broadcaster, beer pitchman and actor — some people's first reaction might be to chuckle.

Who the heck would stalk Bob Uecker?

But Mindy Mechanic, a psychology professor at Cal State-Fullerton who has studied stalking behavior, said no such case should be considered trivial.

"I'm sure it is scary, because you really don't know what that person is capable of," Mechanic said. "You don't know if they have access to a weapon. You don't know where they'll show up next."

Stawski said Uecker never had anything to fear.

"She's a baseball fan," Stawski said. "And like, I think, a lot of us, she enjoys listening to Bob Uecker on the radio. There was no intent, again, to harm him."

Stawski noted that Uecker "comes off on the radio as a guy who's approachable, friendly," and notes that Uecker often talks on the air about his interaction with fans.

"She just didn't perceive him as being so unapproachable as he apparently is," Stawski said.

The problem, however, came in the ways Ladd tried to approach Uecker.

According to court documents, Ladd began by mailing him gifts and items to autograph, first to his office at Milwaukee's Miller Park and then to his homes in Wisconsin and Arizona.

In 2004, she began waiting for him outside an elevator he uses at the stadium, once hiding around the corner and jumping out at him unexpectedly.

In late 2005, Ladd sent Uecker a letter asking him to meet with her to discuss "projects." A later letter said the project was "in fact you."

Uecker recognized Ladd at an autograph session in April and initially refused to sign her items. Uecker then signed one item and Ladd was taken away by team security officers. The incident led to a letter from Ladd saying, "Disdainfully, I am met with your recurrent coldness."

Then came the May 29 pool incident at the Westin hotel in Pittsburgh, where Uecker was staying with the Brewers and registered under a false name.

Ladd, who had booked a room on the same hotel floor as Uecker, met him at the pool around 8 a.m. and asked for a personal meeting. Uecker said he refused and told her to stop bothering him.

But Stawski noted that it is common for fans to gather in the lobby of a visiting team's hotel to look for autographs. Stawski, himself a Brewers season ticket holder, said he receives a media guide from the team that lists which hotels teams stay in on the road.

"I don't think that type of behavior is that unusual - in fact, I would argue that the team encourages it," Stawski said. "Don't publish it."

Mechanic said drawing the line between rabid fan behavior and stalking is a challenge, even to researchers.

"At some level, some types of intense pursuit are normative," Mechanic said. "It's normative to engage in 'groupie'-type behavior."

So if researchers have problems drawing such a line, Mechanic said, it can be extremely difficult for somebody who might have a mental disorder. "You may not even see that line to begin with," Mechanic said.

And in Ladd's case, the line might have extended outside ballparks and team hotels.

In court filings, Uecker states a "strong belief" that Ladd has driven her car past his house.

"She never approached him at his house," Stawski said. "Now, whether she may have driven past the house, that may or may not be the case. I don't know."

One day after the pool incident in Pittsburgh, Ladd was warned to leave Uecker alone.

The next morning, she was back at the hotel pool.

Ladd didn't get the message then, but Stawski said she does now.

"I think she understands that Mr. Uecker perceives her intentions as something other than they were," he said. "And given what's transpired, I am sure that she will not engage in any further behavior that he perceives as harassment."

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