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, ...

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

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'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 ...

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 ...

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… ...