Hi everyone…I just want to express my condolences to the family and friends of Bobby Mercer who died today at 62 years of age.  All of Major League Baseball mourns his passing as he was regarded highly among his peers. We’ll miss you Bobby..

To be honest I’m not a big baseball fan. I watch the Championships and know a few of the players but to say I know anything knowledgeable except how to play would be overstating the truth. I can’t comment except to add on the respect I read in every article about Mr. Mercer.

I am a born New Yorker and a Yankee by association.  To read how highly people have held Mr Mercer in their eyes makes me respect him as a person because we all should be lucky to live a life as his and leave such a legacy.

As Goose Gossage said…”It was the way he carried himself. It was his character and the class in which he did everything — all business and no flash. It was the way he treated everybody as a person.” On this day, we should remember his name and go out in the world treating everyone you meet the same way you would expect to be treated, with respect.

Long live Bobby Mercer!