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AllAboutThe'O'
7/12/2008, 05:01 PM
Oklahoma native and former MLB player Bobby Murcer lost his gallant battle with brain cancer in Oklahoma City this afternoon:

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/07/12/2008-07-12_until_the_very_end_bobby_murcer_showed_h.html
tulsaoilerfan
7/12/2008, 05:21 PM
RIP Bobby, you were one of my favorites growing up. :(
Sooner Born Sooner Bred
7/12/2008, 06:17 PM
RIP Bobby!
StoopTroup
7/12/2008, 06:26 PM
Wow.

In.
r5TPsooner
7/12/2008, 07:15 PM
RIP Bobby, you are a true YANKEE!
stoopified
7/12/2008, 07:47 PM
RIP Bobby,you did Oklahoma proud.
Sooner24
7/12/2008, 08:02 PM
Jack Mildren and now Bobby Murcer. :(
Mixer!
7/12/2008, 08:32 PM
Damn, this hasn't been a good weekend. :(
Soonerus
7/12/2008, 10:13 PM
I was shocked when I heard this today...
royalfan5
7/12/2008, 10:27 PM
Oddly enough I was just in my Uncle's old room at my Grandma's house the other day, and there was a Bobby Murcer chew ad (skoal?) taped up above his old dresser. He was a hell of a ballplayer.
King Crimson
7/12/2008, 10:43 PM
i played junior golf with his son Todd. Bobby seemed like a good guy.

Bobby led MLB in outfield assists in the 70's. that's ballplaying.
King Crimson
7/12/2008, 10:54 PM
read this on wiki:

Murcer gave one of the eulogies at catcher Thurman Munson's funeral on August 6, 1979, in Canton, Ohio in which he quoted the poet and philosopher Angelo Patri: "The life of a soul on earth lasts longer than his departure. He lives on in your life and the life of all others who knew him." Afterward, the team flew home to play the first-place Baltimore Orioles in a game which was broadcast nationally on ABC-TV. Yankee manager Billy Martin wanted to give Murcer the day off, but Murcer insisted on playing—and play he did. Murcer practically won the game single-handedly, bringing the Yankees back from a 4–0 deficit with a 3-run homer in the 7th, then hitting a walk-off 2-run single down the left-field line in the bottom of the 9th, causing Howard Cosell to exclaim what a heroic performance Murcer had put on for the deceased Yankee captain Munson, who had died in a plane crash 4 days earlier. Murcer never used the bat from the game ever again and gave it to Munson's widow, Diana.