Talk:Thurman Munson

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Contents 1 TV series 2 opinions 3 Decline of 1979 Yankees after Munson's death 4 Great Quote, should be in the article 5 Fisk feud

[edit] TV series

Was there not a TV series about a baseball player who died and with his wife became a ghostly angel? It seems inspired in this and must be mentioned in here I think.

[edit] opinions

Thurman should be in the Hall of Fame. Only Bench was better in his era. He only paid ten years but he should be in there.

I loved and identified with Thurmon Munson but he shouldn't be in the Hall until Bill Freehan is in. Freehan was a better defensive Catcher and played in an era when the Pitchers dominated. If you adjust for the era, he outhit Munson. Munson died tragically but it robbed him of his retirement years. He wasn't playing well anymore. Will in New Haven

Fisk rivalry

Anyone have examples to support the claim of a feud with Fisk? The paragraph that mentions this feud is pretty weak without any.

Yea, it seems as if a Yankee fan just put that in there as a pathetic way to stick it to Red Sox fans, when I dont even remember there being a feud between the two nor do I remember any Red Sox fans bragging that Fisk was better.

Stick what to Red Sox fans? If anything it was a Sox fan that put it in there. I removed it because I found it distasteful and insulting to have Munson & Fisk labeled as rivals in the section about his death. If you want to write about the Feud thats finne but should be in the section about his career and have some factual statements to support the claim of a feud. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.250.51.106 (talk) 07:38, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Decline of 1979 Yankees after Munson's death

Am I the only person who recognizes that after Munson died, the 1979 Yankees started to go down the tubes? DanTD 18:50, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Great Quote, should be in the article

"(Thurman) Munson's not moody, he's just mean. When you're moody, you're nice sometimes." - Sparky Lyle I don't think of this as negative. Of course I have an all-time redass team and Munson is on it but I don't consider any of it really negative. Will in New Haven

[edit] Fisk feud

I've removed that paragraph; it just didn't add anything to this article. If someone can get a cite, go ahead and put it back, but only if the incident(s) (if any) were actually significant. This is what I cut out: "Munson also maintained a feud with the other top catcher in the American League in the 1970s, Carlton Fisk of the Boston Red Sox. Fisk's ability to play until he was 45 years old (despite missing time in many seasons due to injuries) allowed him to build up career statistics that far exceeded Munson's. Many of those numbers came while Fisk was with the Chicago White Sox." Matt Deres (talk) 13:37, 16 May 2008 (UTC)