Word: cantons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Larry S. Pollak North Canton, Ohio...
Last week Yankee Catcher Thurman Munson, 32, was killed in a plane crash near Canton, Ohio, and quickly received the encomiums he so craved in life. "Probably the best clutch hitter in baseball," said Los Angeles Dodgers Manager Tom Lasorda. "A wonderful, enormously likable guy, and a truly great ballplayer," said Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn...
Munson died when his twin-engine Cessna Citation I jet crashed 700 feet short of a runway at Akron-Canton air port, barely ten miles from his home. The accident occurred as Munson practiced a series of "touch and go" takeoffs and landings. A licensed pilot since 1977, he bought the seven-seat, $1.2 million jet and was certified to fly it only last month...
...several occasions, Munson asked to be traded to the Indians so he could be closer to his wife Diane and their three children in Canton, 50 miles south of Cleveland. He became a pilot so that he could jet home just for the night after a game. Flying seemed to give him the inner peace he found elusive in the klieg light jungle of baseball. "You get up there," he said once, "and nobody asks you any questions...
DIED. Thurman Munson, 32, captain of the Yankees and one of baseball's great catchers; when the small jet he was piloting crashed just short of an airport runway near Canton, Ohio (see SPORT...