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CANTON – The indoor baseball training facility at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium has a new name. The Canton City Schools Board of Education on May 12 agreed to rename the facility the John "JR ...
Home run legend Bucky Dent tells a Canton audience about playing, flying with his former Yankees teammate Thurman Munson.
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.
CANTON, Ohio (WKBN) – The Canfield baseball team ended Hubbard’s season for the second straight year with a 10-2 win in the Division IV Regional Semifinals at Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium ...
Division I, Region 1, at Canton's Thurman Munson Stadium Medina 2, Perrysburg 2, suspended 3rd inning, resumes 6 p.m. June 6 Division I, Region 2, at Lancaster's Beavers Field ...
The state semifinals and finals are June 13-15 at Canal Park in Akron and Thurman Munson Stadium in Canton (for some semifinals) with seven state championships. Recommended high school sports stories ...
CANTON — When the Fairview side of Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium was filling up an hour before the Apache baseball program was set to play in its first-ever state semifinal ...
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. Aaron Judge ...
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 faded, but the dinner goes on.
Ray Negron, who knew Thurman Munson and lives around the Yankees, compares "The Captain" to Aaron Judge in advance of an annual dinner in Canton.