Let's All Remember Thurman Munson Today

[ullmandds]

great stories guys...steve and dave...hilarious!!!!

i don't remember exactly where I was or what I was doing when I heard...but as a 10 year old fanatical yankees fan...Munson was my favorite player. I was devastated. I attended Lou Pinella baseball camp the summer of 79...munson was supposed to be there...his pic is on the montage...but he never made it...and his square is the only one not autographed.

To this day I still have my munson scrapbook I made after he died...filled with newspaper clippings and pennies from his birth/death years and a 79' burger king munson card....My foul ball I caught at game 4 of the 78 world series that he touched...and all my munson cards.

[nolemmings]

I was 20, and Munson had been my favorite player for years. I was slinging blacktop for the city street department in my home town during the Summer, and the news hit me hard in the break room that afternoon. I wept alot throughout the rest of the day-- death had been a stranger to me, no funerals since I was a tot too young to understand. This truly was tough to get through.

I was lucky enough to have met Thurman in 1978--shook his hand at a bar near the team hotel in the Twin Cities. Many Yankees were relaxing there and it was a dream come true for fans of the pinstripers like me, but the sixty seconds or so talking to Munson were easily the highlight of the day and whole series I came to watch. I'll never forget.