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...have been asking that question for a decade as they watched the team that once dominated baseball wallow in mediocrity. Now some rescuers are on hand. Earlier this winter the Yankees acquired Bobby Bonds, potentially a superstar outfielder, from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for the steady Bobby Murcer. Last week in an even more dramatic-and promising -move, the team signed Pitcher Jim ("Catfish") Hunter, the self-liberated ace of the world champion Oakland A's. This time the price was not a player but a fortune...
Cleveland fared no better in New York. Bobby Murcer hit only his second Shea Stadium home run after he hit his first Saturday, to break a sixth-inning 1-1 deadlock and pace the red-hot Yanks to a sweep of the four-game series...
...Yankees made similar advances in the fourth against Cleveland hurler Bruce Ellingson, 1-1. Elliott Maddox walked with none out, went to second on a Murcer single, then to third on a long foul pop by Lou Piniella. Thurman Munson sacrificed him home to tie the game...
Boston's Rick Wise blanked the Yankees on four hits until the sixth, when Bobby Murcer's lead-off single and Ron Blomberg's second double of the game touched off the big inning. Medich lost his bid for a shutout when Bernie Carbo his second homer of the season, with two out in the ninth...
...Yanks also present a powerful outfield, led by superstar Bobby Murcer and newly-acquired Lou Piniella. Murcer is, with little doubt, one of the five best players in the entire A.L., but the Yankees may be relying a little too heavily on his output...