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Vintage Scoreboards on X: Forty years ago Friday, Yankees catcher Thurman Munson was killed in a plane crash. The Mets, perhaps rather untastefully, shared the news on the Shea Stadium scoreboard. /
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Baseball community remembers Thurman Munson 40 years after fatal plane crash in Canton
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The locker stall and number 15 uniform jersey of New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson remain undisturbed in the clubhouse at Yankee Stadium, July 2, 1993, 14 years after he was killed
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Thurman Munson killed NY Yankees
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This day in sports: Yankees' Thurman Munson killed in plane crash - Los Angeles Times
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1979: The life and death of Thurman Munson
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Remembering Thurman Munson
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August 3, 1979: Somebody's missing: heartbroken Yankees play first game after Thurman Munson's death – Society for American Baseball Research
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Cape Cod Baseball League: News
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Remembering the life of Thurman Munson – New York Daily News
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Thurman Munson: The Yankees' Eternal, Most-cherished Captain
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Vault: Yankees great Thurman Munson dies in plane crash in 1979 - ABC7 New York
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Remembering Yankees legend Thurman Munson
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Don Mattingly, Thurman Munson miss out on Hall of Fame