Forty-five years ago tomorrow, Thurman Munson died. He was 32, killed when the plane he was piloting crashed short of the runway at Canton-Akron Regional Airport on Aug. 2, 1979. Just like that, my ...

New York Yankees World Series hero Mike Torrez will be the guest speaker at an annual dinner honoring Thurman Munson in Canton. The Thurman Munson Catchers Scholarship Dinner is set for Thusday ...

Thurman Munson's children were 4, 7 and 9 when they lost him. At the ages of 46, 50 and 52, they remember him in their separate ways and, as a family, with bittersweet joy. Mike, the youngest ...

CANTON – In some minds it is as if the city has stolen home. On May 7, in celebration of a $5 million makeover, Thurman Munson Memorial Stadium will be rededicated and extolled as a community ...

(WTNH) — Former Mets manager Bobby Valentine has a great early memory of Thurman Munson. It happened in the summer of 1967 in the Cape Cod baseball league. Valentine was between his junior and ...

Thurman Munson, the catcher and team leader of the New York Yankees, was killed in a plane crash on this date in 1979 while he was practicing takeoffs and landings at Akron-Canton Airport near his ...

But if there was a moment that crystallized how important sports were to me, it was the death of Thurman Munson. I was 14 years old and hanging out in the family room of our New Jersey home on Aug ...

One week after Kobe Bryant’s sudden death, the NBA star’s helicopter crash elicited memories from a similar event from nearly 40 years ago — the death of Yankees legend Thurman Munson.

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — The widow of Thurman Munson, the New York Yankees catcher killed in 1979 while flying his plane in Ohio, spoke out about the similar death of NBA legend Kobe Bryant.