He was dressed in jeans and a flannel shirt and no socks ... Ackley shakes his head. “That’s Thurman Munson.” Ackley didn’t know Munson had a Citation. Twenty-five years later, Diana ...

Diana Munson, Thurman’s childhood sweetheart and widow ... ribbed and brought you closer at the same time. “I have this T-shirt,” Randolph said. “It’s a bright yellow T-shirt with ...

He wasn’t slick in his dress or his speech, and he wasn’t a friendly on-camera presence. Thurman Munson died 40 years ago on Aug. 2, 1979. (Yahoo Sports) What he was, was the lead dog on the ...

Both of them were old baseball players suiting up at twice the age Munson was on that stunning day when his jet crashed near the Akron-Canton airport. They weren't Thurman Munson, but one of ...

It doesn't puddle. "The teams in a 7 p.m. game play on a field that is in the same condition as it was for the teams playing at 10 in the morning." Before Thurman Munson died in a 1979 plane crash ...

"I wasn't supposed to pitch that night," Torrez told an audience that filled a large room in the downtown DoubleTree. Mike Gallina (center) moderates the Thurman Munson Catchers Scholarship Dinner ...

I’m Mrs. Thurman Munson.” I don’t think I uttered a word. I was too stunned. It’s been more than five decades since that encounter and I remember it like it was yesterday. Is there any wonder why I’ve ...