But leg injuries prevented him from doing more that season. He never quite adapted to New York, and after just the 1 season, he was traded to the California Angels for outfielder Mickey Rivers and pitcher Ed Figueroa. They turned out to be 2 major figures in the Yankees' revival, so Bonds' greatest value to the Yankees was as trade bait.
As for Murcer, he loved the city of San Francisco, but hated playing in cold, windy Candlestick Park, both as a batter and as an outfielder. He was traded to the Chicago Cubs in 1977, and he enjoyed Wrigley Field a lot more. (Sure, Wrigley also has wind issues, but it is also much more of a hitter's park.)
Still, Murcer was heartbroken to be traded by the Yankees, to whom he had given as much as anybody could in those dark years between 1964 and 1976, and swore he would never forgive them for trading him. But in 1979, George Steinbrenner traded to get him back, and Bobby jumped at the chance, and he remained a part of the Yankee family, as a player until 1983, and then as a broadcaster until his death in 2008.
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October 22, 1974 was a Tuesday. The baseball season had ended 5 days before, with the Oakland Athletics beat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series. Football was in midweek. There were 6 games played in the NBA that day:
* The New York Knicks beat the Houston Rockets, 110-100 at Madison Square Garden. Bill Bradley led the Knicks with 22 points.
* The Atlanta Hawks beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 125-92. John Drew scored 42 for the Hawks.
* The Buffalo Braves beat the New Orleans Jazz, 134-118 at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. Bob McAdoo had 33 points and 22 rebounds. The Braves became the San Diego Clippers in 1978, and the Los Angeles Clippers in 1984. The Jazz moved to Salt Lake City in 1979, becoming the Utah Jazz.
* The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Chicago Bulls, 92-90 at the Milwaukee Exposition and Convention Center Arena, a.k.a. The MECCA.
* The Washington Bullets beat the Kansas City-Omaha Kings, 123-121 at the Kemper Arena in Kansas City. (It's now named the Hy-Vee Arena.) Elvin Hayes scored 35 points for the Bullets, who became the Washington Wizards in 1997.
The Kings stopped playing the occasional game in Omaha after this season, and became just the Kansas City Kings, then the Sacramento Kings in 1985.
* And the Portland Trail Blazers beat the Golden State Warriors, 107-106 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena.
There were 2 games played in the American Basketball Association:
* The San Diego Conquistadors beat the Memphis Sounds, 109-106 at the Mid-South Coliseum in Memphis. Travis Grant scored 41 for the visiting "Q's."
* And the Virginia Squires beat the Spirts of St. Louis, 118-112 at the St. Louis Arena, known from 1973 to 1981 as the Checkerdome.
There were 4 games played in the National Hockey League:
* The New York Islanders beat the Atlanta Flames, 2-1 at the Nassau Coliseum. Bob Bourne scored the winner with just 43 seconds left in regulation.
* The Detroit Red Wings beat the Washington Capitals, 3-0 at the Capital Centre in the Washington suburb of Landover, Maryland. This was the down period in which the Detroit team was known as the Dead Things, but the expansion Caps put together the worst season, winning-percentage-wise, in NHL history. Famously, they didn't win a game on the road until their last try, and skated around the ice with a trash can, in imitation of having won the Stanley Cup.
* The Philadelphia Flyers beat the Los Angeles Kings, 4-2 at The Forum in the Los Angeles suburb of Inglewood, California. The Flyers had won the Cup the season before, and would again this season -- but haven't won it since.
* And the Minnesota North Stars beat the Vancouver Canucks, 3-2 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver.
And there were games played in the World Hockey Association:
* The Quebec Nordiques beat the Houston Aeros, 7-2 at the Colisee de Quebec. In spite of this loss, the Aeros, led by a line of ageless Gordie Howe and his sons Mark and Marty, would repeat as WHA Champions.
* The Toronto Toros beat the Minnesota Fighting Saints, 11-2 at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto.
* And the San Diego Mariners beat the Cleveland Crusaders, 5-2 at the San Diego Sports Arena.