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Yankee for Life is the story of Bobby Murcer’s career with the Yankees as both a player and an award-winning broadcaster. With humor and down-home charm, he shares dozens of fascinating, illuminating, and never-before-heard anecdotes about pals and former teammates, including Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Phil Rizzuto, and Thurman Munson. He also talks about his inspiring struggle against cancer after being diagnosed with a brain tumor on Christmas Eve 2006.   As he recalls his fight to survive, Murcer reflects on the family love and religious faith that carried him through. Surprising and funny, insightful and uplifting, this poignant memoir is an intimate look at baseball, family, and courage, told by a true Yankee for Life.

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""An inspiration."" -- Newsday ""A lovely reminiscence about [Murcer's] baseball and broadcasting career and his fight with cancer...a gentlemanly memoir."" -- New York Times ""What an incredible book. Bobby's an amazingly courageous guy to go through all that and tell his story."" -- David Cone, YES Network ""Bobby Murcer was a born Yankee, a great guy, very well-liked and a true friend of mine."" -- George Steinbrenner

What an incredible book. Bobby's an amazingly courageous guy to go through all that and tell his story. -- David Cone, YES Network

An inspiration. --Newsday

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Bobby Murcer enjoyed an outstanding seventeen-year major- league career with the Yankees, Giants, and Cubs, and afterward spent twenty-five years in the Yankees broadcast booth as a play-by-play announcer. Murcer died of cancer in July 2008. The final chapter of Yankee for Life, ""Play Ball!"", was unintentionally omitted from the paperback edition. We apologize for this oversight. Click here to download the missing chapter.

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