CANTON – In some minds it is as if the city has stolen home. On May 7, in celebration of a $5 million makeover, Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium will be rededicated and extolled as a community ...

New York Yankees' star catcher, Thurman Munson, died on Aug. 2, 1979, when the plane he was flying crashed short of the runway at Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio. He was 32. A cornerstone of the team ...

Four decades later, it’s still tough to believe there’s no happy ending to the last Thurman Munson story. No miracles. No one pulled the Yankee captain from the burning wreckage of the Cessna ...

In the 40 years since Diana Munson lost her husband, Thurman, in a plane crash, she’s had countless conversations with fans who tell her where they were when the accident happened and she never ...

(The below story was originally written in 2004 on the 25th anniversary of Thurman Munson’s death and was republished by the Daily News in 2009) CANTON, Ohio – Six hundred feet short of the ...

Diana Munson, the widow of the Yankees’ Thurman Munson, talks about raising children after the death of their celebrity father and her advice, as a mother, to Vanessa Bryant. By Harvey Araton ...

I remember thinking, the whole time: how can this happen? Thurman Munson was killed in the plane crash in which two other passengers survived.AP And across these last 40 years, I have met dozens ...

The pilot, Yankees captain Thurman Munson, could not be freed before the Cessna twin-engine turbojet burst into flames. The news of the 32-year-old All-Star catcher’s death stunned the baseball ...

If Thurman Munson had lived, would he have kept Canton as his home? It would have been difficult. The All-Star catcher was manager material, and he would have wanted a job. That would have meant ...

Editor's note: Moss Klein covered the Yankees for The Star-Ledger from 1976-92. He reflects on Thurman Munson on this the 30th anniversary of his death. The late-afternoon news coming from the car ...

Thirty years have passed since Thurman Munson died in a plane crash. One can only speculate what would have transpired with respect to his baseball career if he had lived. Hall of Fame Most ...

Perhaps it’s unfair to spotlight Thurman Munson for this, but I do so more for who didn’t receive the Gold Glove than who did. Smashing a career-best 20 home runs and batting .301 didn’t ...