Murcer, Bobby Ray

Murcer, Bobby Ray
▪ 2009

      American baseball player and broadcaster

born May 20, 1946, Oklahoma City, Okla.

died July 12, 2008, Oklahoma City
was a dependable centrefielder and batter who was named to five consecutive All-Star teams (for the New York Yankees [1971–74] and the San Francisco Giants [1975]) during a career in baseball that spanned more than four decades. Murcer joined the Yankees as a shortstop in 1965 and spent most of his career with that team (he had brief stints with the Giants [1975–76] and the Chicago Cubs [1977–79]). During his 17 major league seasons, he slammed 252 home runs, had 1,043 runs batted in, and recorded a career batting average of .277. In 1972 he earned a Gold Glove Award. Murcer retired as a player in 1983 and then served as an announcer for the Yankees until shortly before his death. Murcer coauthored the memoir Yankee for Life: My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes (2008).

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