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… ...

Diana Munson said she wasn't the only one who worried that Thurman's flying amid the rigors of a 162-game schedule was risky. He was piloting a Cessna Citation jet when he died in a crash short of ...

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.

In Munson: Life and Death of a Yankee Captain, author Marty Appel documents the life of Thurman Munson, which was tragically cut short in 1979. Using various sources and new information, ...

Over 30 years have passed since Marty Appel co-authored Thurman Munson’s authorized biography. Appel’s second crack at capturing the essence of the Yankee great is told in the book, “Munson ...

Associated Press file photoIn three consecutive World Series -- 1976, 1977, and 1978 -- Thurman Munson hit .529, .320 and .320 respectively. The six-time All-Star died in a plane crash on Aug. 2 ...

Thurman Munson: 30 Years Of Memories After 32 Years Of Life. Rob Coloney Jun 7, 2018. WRITTEN: Sunday, August 2, 2009.

IT IS a quarter of a century now, a quarter of a century since Thurman Munson gained immortality by meeting his mortality in one of the cruelest ways imaginable. For it was 25 years ago tomorrow th… ...

Munson's widow, Diana, grew up with Thurman at Lehman when Canton had four high schools. Rivalries came to life on all-city-night basketball games, in which everyone from McKinley knew Lehman's ...