Tribute to Bobby Murcer will be worn proudly all year on Yankee uniforms

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Baseball Today: Monday, July 14
Published 7/14/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... -- and colleague Bill Madden said Yankee Universe "will miss him and never forget him." The Post's Mike Vaccaro says that, until Saturday, there were two ways "to understand what the Yankees mean to the people, and to the sport [of baseball]." One was to visit the Hall of Fame to drink in their accomplishments; the other was to "spend a couple of minutes in the company of Bobby Murcer as he walked among the fans at Yankee Stadium." The Yanks on Sunday began wearing a black armband in honor of Murcer (New York Daily News), and will continue to do so all season. ...

Yanks down, but certainly not out of it
Published 7/14/2008 by D&A at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... Montero showed up for the futures game, but speculation continues that he won't actually be a catcher in the bigs . Montero got significant attention , but other prospects did quite well on the bigger stage as well. Do people want to chill a little bit about Jorge Posada's defense now ? Posada's close to returning to full-time catching duties . MLB actually wanted Jason Giambi to participate in the home run derby . Interesting. The armbands the Yanks will wear for Bobby Murcer are the right thing to do. Mo is hoping ...