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When Munson debuted on the ballot, it seemed like he would have been closer in votes to Clemente than Kile, Beck or Lidle. After all, with respect to Gary Carter, Carlton Fisk or Ted Simmons, the former New York Yankees captain might have been the best catcher of the 1970s after Johnny Bench.
Yankees remember Thurman Munson, on 35th anniversary of his death. Yankees catcher Thurman Munson was killed in a plane crash 35 years ago Saturday. On the day Thurman Munson died, in the middle of summer, 1979, Tony Pena was a young minor leaguer playing in Buffalo. He had boarded the team bus for the ballpark when the word went up and down the aisles.