Author who knew Thurman compares "The Captain" to Yankees' Aaron Judge. Ray Negron recalls Munson's clubhouse persona from days he played in three straight World Series. Bucky Dent to speak at Thurman ...

His plane crashed short of a runway ... The loudest applause line came when Dent said, “Thurman Munson and Tommy John belong in the Hall of Fame.” Munson’s chances of making the baseball Hall have ...

This older audience mostly related to Munson's career, but the scholarship winners, by way of example, were born a quarter century after he died in a plane crash near Akron-Canton Airport on Aug ...

Munson was 32 when he died in a plane crash near Akron-Canton Airport during an off day in the Yankees’ 1979 season. Special guests at Thursday’s dinner will be longtime Yankees community liaison Ray ...

Thurman Munson in a 1979 photo supplied by the New York Yankees. Through all the years, all the titles, and all the changes, the word "Captain" has never been handed out lightly in the Bronx.