CLEVELAND, Ohio – A rare Thurman Munson single-signed baseball has sold at auction for $34,122. The ball, part of the Lelands Summer Classic auction, was graded 8.5 by Professional Sports ...

Munson, a seven-time All-Star and the 1976 American League MVP who hit .292 over all or part of 11 seasons, had a rugged style of play that fueled the Yankees to World Series championships in 1977 ...

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… ...

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 ...

I was still a relative rookie on the baseball beat the day Thurman Munson was killed 20 years ago. My relationship with him was what you might expect from a scribe he knew only by sight: Tenuous ...

The Munson family is carrying on in Canton, Ohio, nearly 24 years after Thurman’s death. Oldest son Michael is coaching high school baseball, and the girls, Tracy and Kelly, are raising their ...

He was 32, Munson was, and now, all these years later, it often seems as if the circumstances of his tragic demise have formed more the foundation of his legend than his greatness on the diamond.

Munson was 32 at the time of his death and gosh, he was one hell of a ballplayer. He was a career .292/.346/.410 (116 OPS+) hitter who put up a .299/.347/.438 (128 OPS+) batting line during his ...

One heart. NOTE: Thurman Munson was American League MVP on a Yankees team that reached the World Series in 1976. He was the Yankees' captain on teams that won the World Series in 1977 and 1978.

Munson has been gone 46 years, but he plays once a year in Canton. The ghosts get real when stories about No. 15 are in the air at the Thurman Munson Catchers Scholarship Dinner. This time it was ...