Five Days in August: The Lasting Legacy of Yankees Captain Thurman Munson
Autor Erik Shermanen Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2027
Prior to his tragic death at the age of thirty-two, Munson put up numbers and achievements that would fill any Hall of Fame plaque. The catcher, named American League MVP in 1976, was the heart and soul of the Yankees when they won three straight pennants and two World Series titles. He was relatable to so many—the everyman from a working-class family and a player with a tremendous work ethic and competitive spirit that got every ounce of talent from his often-battered body.
A loving husband and father of three children, Munson always wanted to find a way to spend more time with his Ohio-based family. His answer: learning to fly his own airplane. After flying two of his own prop planes, he upgraded to a jet—a Cessna Citation. While practicing take-offs and landings, he crashed short of the Akron-Canton Airport. His death shocked not just the baseball world but an entire nation.
Munson remains beloved by Yankees fans and is remembered as one of the toughest, most admired athletes to play the game. Erik Sherman recounts Munson’s last days with new insights from teammates Lou Piniella, Roy White, Ron Guidry, Graig Nettles, Reggie Jackson, Mickey Rivers, Goose Gossage, Sparky Lyle, Chris Chambliss, Jerry Narron, Fred Stanley, and Bucky Dent. Through heartfelt interviews with 1970s-era Yankees, opponents, friends, one of the two survivors from the crash, as well as conversations with Diana Munson and other loved ones, Sherman examines Munson’s impact on the lives he left behind and his legacy nearly a half century later.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781496247766
ISBN-10: 1496247760
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 19 photographs, 1 illustration
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 1496247760
Pagini: 216
Ilustrații: 19 photographs, 1 illustration
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and a New York Times best-selling author of ten books on baseball, including Daybreak at Chavez Ravine: Fernandomania and the Remaking of the Los Angeles Dodgers (Nebraska, 2023) and Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words (Nebraska, 2021). He is an inductee to the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame for his baseball writing and hosts the Erik Sherman Show podcast. Visit ErikShermanBaseball.com.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations
Preface
1. All the Captain’s Men
2. Family Man
3. The Damned Cessna
4. August 2, 1979—Death of a Captain
5. August 3, 1979—Yankees in Mourning
6. August 4-5, 1979—Playing in a Fog
7. August 6, 1979—An Emotional Rollercoaster
8. The Aftermath
9. Legacy
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources
Other Works by Erik Sherman
About the Author
Preface
1. All the Captain’s Men
2. Family Man
3. The Damned Cessna
4. August 2, 1979—Death of a Captain
5. August 3, 1979—Yankees in Mourning
6. August 4-5, 1979—Playing in a Fog
7. August 6, 1979—An Emotional Rollercoaster
8. The Aftermath
9. Legacy
Acknowledgments
Notes on Sources
Other Works by Erik Sherman
About the Author
Recenzii
“The death of Thurman Munson was a sudden, shattering thunderbolt in the summer of 1979, severing time into before and after. Nearly half a century later, it remains a shared trauma for a generation of Yankees and their fans. In Five Days in August Erik Sherman shows how a team of champions and a grieving family in Canton, Ohio, soldiered on after losing their foundation. With fresh perspectives and compelling humanity, Sherman takes us back to the days surrounding the incalculable loss of a Yankees captain, drawing a deeply moving portrait of a man who still means so much.”—Tyler Kepner, New York Times best-selling author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
“As the Yankees’ beat writer for the New York Daily News in 1979, I can attest that Thurman Munson’s death was the most traumatic event I’ve ever covered, and in this book Erik Sherman has done a phenomenal (and often heart wrenching) job of filling in all the never-before-told behind the scenes details in reliving that fateful weekend.”—Bill Madden, author of Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball and Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir
“Thurman Munson was at the top of his game. He was a great player and hitter who played the game the way it should be played. He was a great leader who always wanted to be on the field and did anything to win a game. I couldn’t handle his loss. He was leaving children and a wife and leaving life so early at the height of his career. He was a friend. It was one of the worst tragedies I have ever experienced.”—Reggie Jackson, former Yankees teammate and Baseball Hall of Famer
“Erik Sherman has done for a generation of New York baseball fans what Don McLean did for music fans once upon a time: capturing the specific moment in time when an innocence we believed would be eternal vanished in a flash. What perished in Buddy Holly’s plane in 1959 similarly died inside Thurman Munson’s twenty years later: a belief that we all might be young forever. That’s weighty stuff, but Sherman tells the story with a rare combination of grace, grit, and elegance, worthy of the late Yankee captain.”—Mike Vaccaro, sports columnist for the New York Post and author of The Bosses of the Bronx
“It was my privilege to span most of Thurman Munson’s career, working in the Yankees public relations offices and traveling with him as the seasons unfolded. We knew that we had an extraordinary figure in our presence, a leader who personified teamwork and the confidence elite athletes possess. His #15 is still proudly worn by so many fans at Yankee games, nearly a half century after his passing. Erik Sherman has captured the grief and emotion of those days and brought back the understanding of why Thurman mattered to so many.”—Marty Appel, author of Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
“As the Yankees’ beat writer for the New York Daily News in 1979, I can attest that Thurman Munson’s death was the most traumatic event I’ve ever covered, and in this book Erik Sherman has done a phenomenal (and often heart wrenching) job of filling in all the never-before-told behind the scenes details in reliving that fateful weekend.”—Bill Madden, author of Steinbrenner: The Last Lion of Baseball and Yankees, Typewriters, Scandals, and Cooperstown: A Baseball Memoir
“Thurman Munson was at the top of his game. He was a great player and hitter who played the game the way it should be played. He was a great leader who always wanted to be on the field and did anything to win a game. I couldn’t handle his loss. He was leaving children and a wife and leaving life so early at the height of his career. He was a friend. It was one of the worst tragedies I have ever experienced.”—Reggie Jackson, former Yankees teammate and Baseball Hall of Famer
“Erik Sherman has done for a generation of New York baseball fans what Don McLean did for music fans once upon a time: capturing the specific moment in time when an innocence we believed would be eternal vanished in a flash. What perished in Buddy Holly’s plane in 1959 similarly died inside Thurman Munson’s twenty years later: a belief that we all might be young forever. That’s weighty stuff, but Sherman tells the story with a rare combination of grace, grit, and elegance, worthy of the late Yankee captain.”—Mike Vaccaro, sports columnist for the New York Post and author of The Bosses of the Bronx
“It was my privilege to span most of Thurman Munson’s career, working in the Yankees public relations offices and traveling with him as the seasons unfolded. We knew that we had an extraordinary figure in our presence, a leader who personified teamwork and the confidence elite athletes possess. His #15 is still proudly worn by so many fans at Yankee games, nearly a half century after his passing. Erik Sherman has captured the grief and emotion of those days and brought back the understanding of why Thurman mattered to so many.”—Marty Appel, author of Pinstripe Empire: The New York Yankees from Before the Babe to After the Boss
Descriere
The story that captivated the baseball world in August 1979—the tragic death of Yankees captain Thurman Munson while piloting his own plane—is recounted, with new revelations and fresh perspective.