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Big Tobacco in the Big Apple

How New York City Became the Heart of the Tobacco Industry
…and Anti Smoking Activism

Skoal Dippin’ Man – The Bobby Murcer Story

BTBA NYC

The Tragic Irony of New York Yankee Bobby Murcer (0:26)

“Skoal Dippin’ Man”

Vinyl Record
Bobby Murcer
Columbia Music

1983

“US Tobacco salutes Bobby Murcer the Skoal Dippin’ Man”

Advertisement for U.S. Tobacco Company’s Skoal spitting tobacco
Yankees Magazine

August 7, 1983

“Skoal Dippin’ Man”

Video with slideshow of photographs by Andrew Skolnick and Bobby Murcer’s recording of “Skoal Dippin’ Man”
Columbia Music

“Bobby Murder Retires”

Cover
Yankees Magazine

August 7, 1983

Yankee for Life

Book by Bobby Murcer with Glen Waggoner
Harper

2008

“Goodbye Bobby”

Back page headline
The New York Post

July 13, 2008

“Bobby Murcer, 62, a Yankees Mainstay on the Field and in the Broadcast Booth”

Article by Richard Goldstein
The New York Times

July 13, 2008

“A Tip of the Cap to Bobby Murcer”

Article by Alan Barra
The Wall Street Journal


2008