Bobby Murcer Marquee

He was from Oklahoma, signed as a shortstop by the same scout who had signed Mickey Mantle, and moved to center field to be compared with him for the rest of his career. It was not a fair thing to do to anybody. He hit .331 with 25 home runs in 1971 and led the American League with 102 runs in 1972, with 33 home runs and a Gold Glove.

On August 2, 1979 Thurman Munson died flying his own plane. Murcer spoke at the funeral in Ohio that morning, flew back, and that night hit a three-run home run and then a two-run single with two outs in the ninth to win the game 5-4. He gave the bat to Munson's widow.

Seventeen seasons gave him 1,862 hits, 252 home runs, 1,043 runs batted in, 862 walks and a .277 average, with five All-Star selections. New York traded him to San Francisco for Bobby Bonds in 1974, the first trade of two players earning six figures. He broadcast Yankees games for twenty-five years afterward and died of a brain tumor in 2008, at sixty-two.