“He said it’s a shame what happened to Thurman Munson. I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ He said he got killed in a plane crash. It buckled my knees. I just sat down on the hood of my ...

The widow of tragic baseball star Thurman Munson who died in a plane crash more than 40 years ago has reached out to Kobe Bryant's wife saying: 'I wish I could hug her.' Diana Munson lost her 32 ...

His face is bleeding from slamming into the panel. Thurman Munson can’t free himself. Any moment the plane is going to go up. The pilot is worried about his friends. “Are you guys okay?” ...

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 ...

Instead, Thurman Munson, who died at the age of 32 ... once the gear was down and dragging on the plane, Munson failed to drop the flaps to give the plane more lift. "The added drag of the ...

August 2, 1979 is the date of one baseball's worst tragedies -- it's the day beloved Yankee catcher Thurman Munson died in a plane crash outside Canton, Ohio. "I get chills all the time," Goose ...

I remember thinking, the whole time: how can this happen? Thurman Munson was killed in the plane crash in which two other passengers survived.AP And across these last 40 years, I have met dozens ...

Bucky Dent and Tommy John are featured guests at this year’s Thurman Munson Scholarship Dinner ... who grew up in Canton and died in a 1979 plane crash while he was home visiting his family.

Canton’s Thurman Munson won’t have a chance to be part ... Munson was in his 11th year with the Yankees when he died in a plane crash near Akron-Canton Airport on Aug. 2, 1979.

The Thurman Munson Catchers Scholarship Dinner is set ... 1977 and 1978 before perishing in a jet plane crash near Akron-Canton Airport in 1979. The dinner, which drew a large crowd last year ...