A Look Back: Yankee team captain Thurman Munson dies in plane crash 

Makes me sad even to this today.

I still remember that day as a 14 year old as I am now many years later. That somber day is still fresh in my memory. RIP Thurman! Hope you can guide the 2022 Yankees into the promise land !!🙏 Don’t let this team waste a winning season!🙏🙏

I was eight. Many memories watching tugboat and the Yankees with my father on WPIX He belongs in Cooperstown

Thurm was one of my all time favorite yankee players and I still believe that he was vastly underrated as a catcher . The man could handle the bat hit for average drove in runs had power when he needed it and was a clutch hitter . Excellent defensively behind the plate good arm and outstanding handler of pitchers

Thurman was the best. He was the pride of the Yankees.

Thurman Munson was my dad's favorite player. I was nine years old in 1979. These were my Yankees as a kid.

I have a feeling that if I was alive in the early- mid 70s, even as a Mets fan, he would have been one of my favorite players.

This was huge and tragic when it happened

Munson belongs in The Baseball Hall Of Fame 15 ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾

Its still very sad to watch this✌️

I was at my 43rd Yankees Thurman Munson game this past August 2nd to still memorialize him, my kids were wondering why I was praying, they didn’t understand what was going on and I told them the whole thing on what happened that day and they didn’t even get the whole concept together, once they saw the picture of the late Thurman Munson they eventually realized that they were misunderstanding of the situation that all of the people that saw the news back in the 70s breaking the news on his untimely death and reflected on his life, all of the people all over the united states saw the news back in ‘79 and had moments of silence, once I saw the news on WCBS 2 back then I knew immediately that I’m possibly gonna fly over to his funeral and help in the memorial, once I saw his casket was closed I knew I was never gonna see his face again, my kids couldn’t believe what happened to this legendary captain and catcher who literally sacrificed his life, once the game started right after the funeral we again had more moments of silence in ‘79, everyone that was around in ‘79 is still gonna be depressed after losing an american baseball icon that started his baseball career on the yankees in ‘69 and played there for 10 years until his life was taken away forever too soon, he was born in 1947 and this year he would’ve been 76 today but he’s still technically 32 because he’s dead, but I say oh well it is what it is and I have to cope with it because we have many more yankees legends to go around

I was never a yankee fan I was a Dodger fan all my life but Thurman was a great ball player RIP brother

I was at Shea stadium for a double header, Mets vs. Phillies and between games someone behind me had a radio and that's what I heard that Thurman Munson had died. Before the start of the second game there was a moment of silence. Took the energy from the crowd.😢

A very difficult death to rationalize, similar to Lyman Bostock’s death in September of 1978. Both were great players.

2:51 This dude's legendary comb-over deserves its own monument

i was at summer camp in the Northern Adirondacks...the morning after he died one of the counselors told me. We didn't have electricity but the counselor had a transistor radio and heard the news. I was only 12 when it happened....couldn't fully grasp it at the time but now I really knew what he meant to the Yanks.

Huge Oriole fan here , Munson was 1 of very Few YANKEES I Ever had Respect for, Class Guy, Great Player, Only thing wrong with him, he Wasnt an ORIOLE!

I was at that game. So heartbreaking. " Our Captain".

I was 9 in 1979 and boy did I cry.

This was 17, days before my 10th Birthday. I remember like it was yesterday. I also remember when Burger King, was giving out his Baseball card. Everyone wanted one.

Why I became a Yankees fan, was because of Munson.

I'm a Red Sox fan. But this is tragic. Condolences.

It's time for The Captain Thurman Munson 15 to be inducted to The Baseball Hall of Fame ⚾⚾⚾⚾⚾!!!!

I was 11 and remember a kid down the street yelling that Munson died. I told him to stfu or something similar and didn’t believe him. Minutes later I was inside my neighbors apartment. They were Peruvian and had the Spanish tv station on. I look and there is just a Yankees logo on the tv and my friend said someone on the Yankees died. What a sinking feeling it was.

Saddest Moment in Yankees History

Sad

Great ball player i remember that day

9:15 Bobby saw a ghost???? That's an unusual expression!

These were my Yankees

Tommy John joins us from his unmade bed

I remember where I was when I heard the news. Really saddened.

He came to play ball.he should be in the Hall of Fame.

I was 16 and I cried my eyes out. Even steinbrenner was shaken and somber.

2:34 ..didn't realize that Dennis Weaver _'felt the loss'_ as well

3:30 Eerie…A player with #2 is being shown on recording in 1979 about former Yankees captain Thurman Munson. #2 would be retired as well and was a Yankees captain. Derek Jeter

Does anyone remember Thurman Munson doing a commercial for Lectric Shave? It was the best Lectric Shave Commercial I ever seen. That's what I'll remember most about "Captain" Thurman Munson.

I still remember that this incident cost the Yankess the post-season.

Met and got his autograph weeks before he died

I only wonder if there was a connection of Football with Thurman Munson since he died crashing his plane at the Home of the Football Hall of Fame.

And not in the HOF.

rip captain go yankees

TJ giving his interview basically from bed. Yikes 😮

I have tremendous respect for his skills, great career, and his undeniable leadership qualities. And I'm sorry he died way too young. But his comment that the National Guard should have shot/killed more Kent State students (his alma mater) really soured me on his general character.

The reason i wore #15 when i played baseball and softball

The Yankees should keep Thurman Munsons number retired as he was their team leader and hall of fame caliber player from 1970 to 1979 but will never be inducted into the hall of fame because he was a fan and sports writer hating basturd.