Thurman Munson is one of the first players I remember because of how he died. I was a kid in 1979 when the news broke, and it forced me to face something I wasn’t ready for. All living things die. Even baseball players who seem larger than life. Even the captain of the Yankees.
I have his 1978 Topps card, number 60. That set is the only complete collecti…
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