Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
July 30, 2004
Remembering Munson

My old friend Willie Weinbaum inteviews one of the survivors of the Thurmon Munson plane crash on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the crash. It's the first time either of the survivors have talked publicly about the accident.


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Nice interview. That's a day I'll never forget.

Posted by: Robert at July 30, 2004 04:52 PM

Real nice interview and tribute. Live for today!

Posted by: Jon at August 2, 2004 08:01 PM

Re: Thuman Munson

I watched the interview. It was moving and deep.

If Reggie was the straw that stirred the drink, Munson was the heart and soul of the 1976-78 Pennant (76-78) and World Series (77-78) winning Yankees. The team that came back from 14 back to overhaul the Bosox and win the World Championship in 1978 did it on the Bucky Dent home run, but who was the leader in that clubhouse but Thurman Munson????

After Thurman was gone, so were the good times, except for one last hurrah in 1981, and a losing WS to the Dodgers.

Thurman belongs in the HOF. His career was tragically cut short, like Kirby Puckett, and like Yogi Berra, he was a leader of a championship dynasty Yankee squad.

--AJK

Posted by: Art Kyriazisa at August 12, 2004 06:53 PM