Thurman Munson was killed in the plane crash in which ... much of it due to one of the most famous quotes in baseball history: “I’m the straw that stirs the drink … Munson thinks he [can ...

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 ...

Lakota West High School’s baseball team lost to Lewis Center Olentangy 3-1 in a Division I state semifinal on Saturday at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium in Canton.

He turned around to face home plate. Then it hit him. The area around home was empty. Thurman Munson was missing. “It’s the only game that, when I went out there, I didn’t feel like pitching ...

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 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 ...

We remember Munson not for the life he lived, but for the way he died. So I guess it's fair to say that I'm not exactly the most qualified candidate to read a book about Thurman Munson. But boy ...

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 ...

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 ...

It won’t be the same because Thurman Munson will never again come bursting through the door hurling good-natured insults at his teammates as he swaggers to his locker. It won’t be the same ...

Thurman Munson's children were 4, 7 and 9 when they lost him. At the ages of 46, 50 and 52, they remember him in their separate ways and, as a family, with bittersweet joy. Mike, the youngest ...