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Murcer: Call him Mr. Oklahoma City
Baseball took Bobby Murcer to three of the world's most glorious and glamorous cities.
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New York. San Francisco. Chicago.
None ever stole his heart.
Even though Murcer ventured out to those glitzy locales, he always returned to Oklahoma City. This was home. He was born here, raised here, starred here.
Sadly, on Saturday, he died here.
Murcer will be remembered in coming days for his life in baseball. As a player, he was a five-time All-Star and a beloved Yankee. As a broadcaster, he endeared the Yankee Nation even more.
And all of those things about Murcer are true, but so is this.
He loved his hometown.
Mr. Yankee? Mr. Oklahoma City is more like it.
"He was on-call for anything anybody in Oklahoma needed him for,” longtime friend Lee Allan Smith said. "He was just the best.”
Smith oversaw all projects and events related to the Oklahoma Centennial, and Murcer was among first dignitaries he enlisted. Murcer was on the Ford Center stage last November during the Centennial Spectacular.
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