Thurman Munson poses for his Canton Repository All-Stark County football team photo Nov. 11, 1964, when he was a senior at Lehman High School. More on Thurman Munson: The Captain spoke his mind ...

New York Yankees Thurman Munson connects with the ball for a double in the seventh inning of the World Series game with the Los Angeles Dodgers in New York, Oct. 15, 1978.

And Munson had special cause to celebrate this moment of postseason success. The standout Stark County baseball star had batted .278 in the 1978 pennant-winning series – five hits in 18 at bats ...

New York Yankees World Series hero Mike Torrez will be the guest speaker at an annual dinner honoring Thurman Munson in Canton.. The Thurman Munson Catchers Scholarship Dinner is set for Thusday ...

“Thurman Munson comes up and he’s one of the first guys in the pile but I’ll never forget this,” Brett told MLB Network for their “Brett” documentary debuting Thursday night at 8 p.m. ET.