Death Summary: Murcer found out that he had a brain tumor on Christmas Eve (of all days), 2006. He was operated on 4 days later and on January 10th 2007, it was announced that the tumor was malignant.

After undergoing extensive treatment (which ultimately deteriorated his immune system), he was pronounced dead on July 12th, 2008 from complications related to Brain Cancer at the age of 62.

His death occurred 3 days before the Major League Baseball all-star game that was taking place at Yankee Stadium.

For information about cancer or to make donations for the fight against cancer, go to the American Cancer Society's website.

Who was Bobby Murcer: Bobby Ray Murcer played as an outfielder for the New York Yankees (mostly) from 1965 to 1983.

After his career playing the game, he went on to work for the Yankees management in various capacities like left-handed hitting coach, assistant to the general manager, etc.

Eventually he landed in broadcasting and covered Yankees games on broadcast television, the radio and the YES Network for close to 20 years.

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