Bobby Murcer: The Other Oklahoma Kid

Signed by the Yankees as a shortstop out of an Oklahoma high school – just like his boyhood idol Mickey Mantle – Bobby Murcer never followed in The Mick’s footsteps. He didn’t need to. New York loved him for being Bobby Murcer. Murcer was a beloved New York Yankees hero, and like Don Mattingly, he accomplished it without the benefit of annual World Series appearances. He may not have a monument or a retired number, but in the hearts of Yankee fans of the ‘70s and ‘80s, he was their guy. To borrow from computer-speak, there was Bobby 1.0 and…