⚾️Baseball Mostly 8/4

 “New recording location. Cannon Park.

Yasss.

Speaking of cannons, he had a cannon behind the plate. Thurman Munson.

That's right, throws right.

511, 190. June 7th, 1947 to August 2nd, 1979. He passed away at 32.

I forgot how.

What's the podcast?

That's just the end of the podcast right there.

Oh, it was a, he was practicing landings in his aircraft at Akron Canton airport. He died in a crash.

Yeah, that's, that's unfortunate.

His final game was August 1st, the day before, 1979.

Okay. So that's why, okay.

So I feel like look at his numbers. I'm like, the volume of them is not crazy. But that's why it's because the loss potential, what he could have done if he had played another five seasons.

Yeah. Okay.

I see.

Sunset Hills Cemetery, Canton, Ohio. first round pick by the Yankees. Fourth overall, 1968, June amateur draft.

Kent State, that's Kent State was in the news a lot back then. Because they had the, there was like the protests. What was that?

Like 1972 or something.

Let's look.

It's 8:06 a.m. Kent State protests.

The internet's a little slow here at Canon. Kent State Shootings, May 4th, May[…]”

From Baseball Mostly: 871~TOTD #382⚾️HOF or Not❓Thurman Munson, Aug 4, 2024

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