Murcer family: Baseball legend's tumor hasn't returned
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Bobby and Kay Murcer
Kay and Bobby Murcer, shown here in 2007. Tests this week revealed the church member and baseball legend is responding well to treatment for a brain tumor that was removed in December 2006.
Bobby and Kay Murcer
Kay and Bobby Murcer, shown here in 2007. Tests this week revealed the church member and baseball legend is responding well to treatment for a brain tumor that was removed in December 2006.
New York Yankees broadcaster Bobby Murcer, a member of the Memorial
Road church in Oklahoma City, says a scare that led doctors to wonder whether the 61-year-old's brain tumor had returned has ended well.
"Final path reports just in," Murcer's wife, Kay, shared with family and friends by e-mail on Wednesday. "No tumor."
The former All-Star outfielder underwent brain surgery Dec. 28, 2006, in Houston. The brain tumor removed was malignant, and Murcer has undergone treatment since.
"God is so good, and we are back on track with the treatment," Kay Murcer said.
The family requested prayers late last week when doctors were concerned that the tumor had recurred.
"With this tumor that I have, any little thing that's out of the ordinary, they need to find out about it," Murcer told Newsday last week.
He plans to join the team in Tampa, Fla., later this week to participate in a spring training broadcast game.
Murcer was the team's color analyst on radio from 1983-1986 and has been on TV as a color commentator since 1987.
A five-time All-Star in his 17-year playing career, he batted .277 with 252 home runs and 1,043 RBIs. He served as the Yankees' assistant general manager in 1986.
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"Final path reports just in," Murcer's wife, Kay, shared with family and friends by e-mail on Wednesday. "No tumor."
The former All-Star outfielder underwent brain surgery Dec. 28, 2006, in Houston. The brain tumor removed was malignant, and Murcer has undergone treatment since.
"God is so good, and we are back on track with the treatment," Kay Murcer said.
The family requested prayers late last week when doctors were concerned that the tumor had recurred.
"With this tumor that I have, any little thing that's out of the ordinary, they need to find out about it," Murcer told Newsday last week.
He plans to join the team in Tampa, Fla., later this week to participate in a spring training broadcast game.
Murcer was the team's color analyst on radio from 1983-1986 and has been on TV as a color commentator since 1987.
A five-time All-Star in his 17-year playing career, he batted .277 with 252 home runs and 1,043 RBIs. He served as the Yankees' assistant general manager in 1986.
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