NEW YORK -- The tumor that was removed from Bobby Murcer's brain during surgery last month was malignant. "As we begin a new year, I find myself facing a new challenge -- the biggest of my life so far ...

Yankee icon Bobby Murcer died yesterday at the age of 62 because of complications from brain cancer. He passed away at Mercy Hospital in his hometown of Oklahoma City, surrounded by family, including ...

Former New York Yankee slugger Bobby Murcer has been cleared of a malignant brain cancer, the team said Tuesday. Murcer was diagnosed with brain cancer on Christmas Eve. He had surgery to remove the ...

NEW YORK — Bobby Murcer, a five-time All-Star outfielder who spent nearly four decades with the New York Yankees as a player, executive and announcer, has died. He was 62. The Yankees said Murcer died ...

NEW YORK – Bobby Murcer, a five-time All-Star outfielder who spent nearly four decades with the New York Yankees as a player, executive and announcer, has died. He was 62. The Yankees said Murcer died ...

Three years ago, on Christmas Eve, doctors told Bobby Murcer he had a brain tumor. On Christmas Day, figuring only a miracle could save his life, it was Murcer who reached out, consoling and ...

Bobby Murcer, the leading Yankees star of the early 1970s who later became a popular broadcaster with the team, died today after a 19-month battle with brain cancer. He was 62. The Yankees said he ...

Bobby Ray Murcers' smile was a big as his heart. After a long battle with brain cancer, which was diagnosed on Christmas Eve in 2006, suffering no more he ascends to meet "his friend Thurm" as Gods' ...

From the time he joined the Yankees as a 19-year-old shortstop in 1965, everybody talked about Bobby Murcer being the next Mickey Mantle. The similarities were obvious. Like Mantle, Murcer was from ...

Cubs manager Lou Piniella was visibly shaken when he heard the news of Bobby Murcer’s death after Saturday’s 8-7 victory over San Francisco. The two had been longtime friends since their days playing ...

The events of that week 28 years ago all seemed unreal, and yet Bobby Murcer remembers them vividly, right down to the tiny details and conversations. “I remember Thurman saying, ‘I need some fuel.

He never filled Mickey Mantle’s shoes and wasn’t one of baseball’s superstars, but in the hearts of Yankees and their fans Bobby Murcer was a Hall of Fame person who happened to be a wonderful player.