I was still a relative rookie on the baseball beat the day Thurman Munson was killed 20 years ago. My relationship with him was what you might expect from a scribe he knew only by sight: Tenuous at… ...

CANTON, Ohio - Six hundred feet short of the runway and decades before his time, Thurman Lee Munson died a quarter of a century ago in the fiery wreckage of a blue pinstriped jet. He was 32 years old.

Last night, I went to a party at Rutgers University. I wore the #15 Munson Jersey Shirt, in memory of Thurman, whom I wish I could have one day met.

The pilot, Yankees captain Thurman Munson, could not be freed before the Cessna twin-engine turbojet burst into flames. The news of the 32-year-old All-Star catcher’s death stunned the baseball ...

Diana Munson warned Gossage might use a few naughty words. Gossage, 72, spoke this crowd's language when he said, "When it comes to Hall of Famer catchers, Thurman doesn't have to take a back seat ...

Goose Gossage: Thurman Munson doesn't take a back seat to any HOF catcher, Johnny Bench included steve doerschuk, canton repository Fri, Aug 18, 2023, 5:56 AM · 6 min read ...

Watch a WCBS tribute to Thurman Munson on the 10-year anniversary of his death Thurman Munson would spend hours in his office at home, doodling on a legal pad, conducting business and making plans.

The doors to the past, to a decade ago, are heavy and full and brown. They open wide, you are pulled inside and it is 1979. Everything is as it was. ”His office,” Thurman Munson`s widow… ...

Diana Munson never left Canton, Ohio, the town in which Thurman was raised, the home to which he returned on an offday in 1979. Ohio is home. The family house is there and so are so many memories.

After a while Thurman Munson doesn't say anything to the batters, and Gator, he's free and clear. ... But that blue-and-white-checked shirt—she kept that. I go to Catfish Hunter's farm in ...