The Yankees 9-4 win over the Blue Jays this afternoon, which featured Derek Jeter’s 200th career home run as well as Alex Rodriguez’s 537th career bomb (moving him past Mickey Mantle on the all-time list), was overshadowed by the news that Bobby Murcer has passed away.
Murcer was a solid star player for the Yankees during the late 60s and early 70s–good but never truly great–and later, a friendly voice in the broadcast booth. Murcer knocked a game-winning, pinch-hit homer over the right center field wall against the Orioles in September of 1981. I was at that game with my dad and my brother. I’ll never forget watching two drunk guys sitting down the row from us in the upper deck, chanting "Bob-by, Bob-by!" and then all hell breaking loose when Murcer hit the dinger.
George Carlin, now Bobby Murcer. It certainly hits a lot closer to home when you grew up watching and then listening to a guy. Sixty-two is too young, man. At least he’s not in pain anymore. Let’s hope he’s at peace. I know it’s the natural order of things and all, but, good goosh, we’ve been talking an awful lot about death lately.
