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Former Yankee Outfielder Bobby Murcer Dies At 62

wnbc.com — News 4 New York has learned that former Yankees outfielder Bobby Murcer has died after a battle with brain cancer. He was 62. Murcer played for the Yankees from 1965-74 and 1979-83 and became a broadcaster with the team after retiring in 1983.

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  • hella81, on 07/12/2008, -1/+23Sad news. Rest in peace, Bobby.
    • Cwo655321, on 07/13/2008, -5/+1let that be a lesson to all of you!
  • digits12, on 07/12/2008, -1/+12sad brain cancer :(
  • kloop10, on 07/13/2008, -1/+10Wow.... R.I.P Bobby :(
  • Tribunis, on 07/13/2008, -1/+17Cancer needs to get fixed, so many good people die from cancer.
    • use2bacanadian, on 07/13/2008, -3/+0Cancer needs to get fixed???? You really do belong on Digg!
  • aflaks, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6Brain cancer is a horrible way to go. RIP Bobby
  • ericdano, on 07/13/2008, -17/+3who? What? Buried
    • jspegele, on 07/13/2008, -0/+3Why did you click the link? Don't bury an article just because you're not interested in it or familiar with the subject. Just ignore it, don't enter the comments section, just move the ***** along.
      • cager66, on 07/13/2008, -3/+0i personally like to keep the ***** in one place, so it's easily containable.
  • 9bpm9, on 07/13/2008, -9/+1I think any baseball fan would have known this by now. Like yesterday.
    • Carramrod72, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6Like, totally, dude.

      You are so ahead of the curve its ***** insane, bro.
  • frank2, on 07/13/2008, -0/+9He always seemed like a particularly nice dude.
  • cogitocogito, on 07/13/2008, -18/+7***** him.

    Just because he might have been nice to his family or maybe he enjoyed petting kittens is irrelevant.

    He was a willing and eager participant in aiding an evil regime engaged in war crimes, and that is just the little we know right now. God only knows what we will learn about this regime's crimes in the next fifty years, assuming that we will be allowed to know anything remotely resembling the truth.

    I am so sick of being subjected to trivial feel-good ***** about evil men just because they die. Screw that. He was scum, as illustrated by his aiding this gang of thugs, and now he is dead. Good riddance and, with any luck, he won't be the last member or former member of this regime to leave us in the near future.
    • tyree731, on 07/13/2008, -4/+1I have a fleeting suspicion you have no idea who Bobby Murcer is.
    • wrathoftheafe, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8roflcopter
    • andrewcubbie, on 07/13/2008, -0/+8Bobby Murcer = Tony Snow?
    • Carramrod72, on 07/13/2008, -2/+1Yikes.
    • GenghisRon, on 07/13/2008, -5/+1Red Sox fan?
    • ogre2112, on 07/13/2008, -2/+2rofl.. if you didn't know, it's a referance to the reddit vs. digg post
    • negativenancy, on 07/13/2008, -1/+1I woulda digged you up if you had, you know, not ***** copied that post word for word. It makes absolutely no sense, if you had just changed a few words around, it would've been funny.
      • wrathoftheafe, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1it totally makes sense. the yankees are the evil empire of baseball
    • schwit, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2I'm curious what the readers of this idiot's Tony Snow comment are thinking? "Snow played for the Yankees?"
    • cager66, on 07/13/2008, -0/+1dammit, he beat me to it....
  • kckern, on 07/13/2008, -0/+5RIP
  • ericjohnson0, on 07/13/2008, -0/+7Here's a nice tribute video someone did for him. He'll be missed.

    http://thesaloon.net/blog/_archives/2008/7/12/3789 ...
    • reland1, on 07/13/2008, -0/+4Thank you, Eric..Bob Murcer was a great BB player...we were fans, too.........
  • TimmyGUNZ, on 07/13/2008, -0/+6Very sad news. It was such a wonderful day when he came back to the stadium after his initial long absence. He is going to be greatly missed.
  • Carramrod72, on 07/13/2008, -0/+9The Munson game:
    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.

    Class act. Rest in Peace Bobby.
  • schwit, on 07/13/2008, -11/+2A decent ballplayer, but overrated. Had he not played for the Yankees his notoriety would have been much less.
  • cager66, on 07/13/2008, -13/+0I'm glad he's dead...............what? Yankees suck.
  • MusicianX, on 07/13/2008, -11/+1I don't care if he was a good family man or whatever ***** you use to spin it- he was a representative of the coalition that goes down in infamy for perpetrating one of the most disgusting and inhumane crimes ever in human history (the 1996 AL Championships)

    This despicable dirtpile can rot in hell for all i care.
    • cager66, on 07/13/2008, -2/+0nice try, someone beat us both to it though.... (sadface)
  • use2bacanadian, on 07/13/2008, -8/+0This is so tragic - he was right on the verge of discovering a new technology that would lead to the replacement of oil as our primary source of energy and our dependence of its foreign sources. /sarcasm

    The western world is in decline and people go bury their heads in the sand, refuse to get an education, honor false heroes - like baseball players, and riot when there team wins - or if their team loses. Incredible!
    • cager66, on 07/13/2008, -1/+0william cooper dies and all people ask is:

      WTF is william cooper?

      • use2bacanadian, on 07/13/2008, -1/+0This Cooper? "Cooper's earliest notoriety developed among UFO enthusiasts, as he promoted UFO conspiracy theories, Kennedy assassination theories, and theories about a New World Order conspiracy."
        It is no surprise no one knows who that is.
  • TBBucs, on 07/13/2008, -11/+1***** him.

    Just because he might have been nice to his family or maybe he enjoyed petting kittens is irrelevant.

    He was a willing and eager participant in aiding an evil regime in New York, and that is just the little we know right now. God only knows what we will learn about this team's crimes in the next fifty years, assuming that we will be allowed to know anything remotely resembling the truth.

    I am so sick of being subjected to trivial feel-good ***** about evil men just because they die. Screw that. He was scum, as illustrated by his baseball career, and now he is dead. Good riddance and, with any luck, he won't be the last member or former member of this team to leave us in the near future.
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