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Introducing: Kent State MACwood Squares
MACwood Squares is our summer reading series on the best athletes in Mid-American Conference sports history. This week features Kent State. Looking for your MAC school? Consult our schedule for other teams and please submit your nominees as well. There you go. Here's your nine. I didn't really get...
8/02/1979 - Thurman Munson dies in crash
(The wreckage of the crash that cost Thurman Munson his life) August 2, 1979 is the date of one baseball's worst tragedies -- it's the day beloved Yankee catcher Thurman Munson died in a plane crash outside Canton, Ohio. "I get chills all the time," Goose Gossage said in 2007. "I think about it a...
New York Yankee notes: No love for Thurman?
Let's look around the Inter-Google this morning and see what is being said about our New York Yankees. Oh, and I promise to make this about something other than who will play left field. Bugs & Cranks ranks the four best catchers in Yankee history, and leaves Thurman Munson off the list. My...
'Munson' is worth a read
Thurman Munson It may seem strange to write a book about a baseball player who has been dead for 30 years, especially one who did not even make the Hall of Fame. That, however, is exactly what Marty Appel has done in the forthcoming book "MUNSON: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain." The book,...
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