The TV series emphasizes the boisterous nature of the team, led by manager Billy Martin, catcher Thurman Munson and outfielder Reggie Jackson, as well as the malaise of the Bronx and New York City in general during that time, such as the blackout, the city's serious financial woes and near bankruptcy, the arson for insurance payments, and the election of Ed Koch as mayor.

The 1976 World Series provided a head-to-head match up with the New York Yankees and their catcher, Thurman Munson.

At the post-World Series press conference, Reds manager Sparky Anderson was asked by a journalist to compare Munson with his catcher, Johnny Bench.

Iván Rodríguez won for the Texas Rangers in 1999, previous to that, the last catcher to win an AL MVP was the New York Yankees Thurman Munson in 1976.

Although team owner George Steinbrenner and several players, most notably catcher and team captain Thurman Munson and outfielder Lou Piniella, were excited about his arrival, Martin was not.

* August 2 – death of Thurman Munson, New York Yankees catcher, in an air crash

An example is Rizzuto's thoughts on the death of Yankees catcher Thurmon Munson in an airplane crash:

Thurman Lee Munson ( June 7, 1947 – August 2, 1979 ) was an American Major League Baseball catcher.

It occurred on June 18 against the Baltimore Orioles when opposing catcher Andy Etchebarren knocked Munson unconscious on a play at the plate, dislodging the ball.

Because the catcher is considered a captain on the field ( and some, such as Thurman Munson and Jason Varitek were in fact team captains ), he is often in charge of planning defensive plays.

" Changes Lemon made during the season included returning Thurman Munson to the team's every day catcher ( he had been playing in the outfield ), putting Jackson in the clean-up spot in the batting order and becoming the regular right fielder, and pitching Ed Figueroa every fourth day ( instead of fifth ).

Rodríguez was only the ninth catcher in the history of Major League Baseball to win the Most Valuable Player award, and he was the first to win it since Thurman Munson in 1976.

He was on the mound ten days later when they captured the World Series title against the Los Angeles Dodgers for their second consecutive championship, coming on with no one out in the eighth inning of Game 6 ; he retired Ron Cey on a popup to catcher Thurman Munson to clinch the win.

During his tenure with the Yankees, he served as a reserve catcher to Thurman Munson, and received tutoring from Yankees coach and former catching standout, Jim Hegan.

At Kent State University, Stone was an outstanding pitcher and his catcher was Thurman Munson.

During the song, DJ George Michael ( who also was a sports reporter ) interrupted to break the news that New York Yankees catcher and team captain Thurman Munson had died in a plane crash.

Bench's performance earned him the Series MVP, while fellow catcher Munson had a fine Series himself with nine hits and a. 529 average.

The prior two were catcher Thurman Munson ( on August 2, 1979 ) and pitcher Jim Hardin ( on March 9, 1991 ).

) Later that year, the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company ( a company set up by the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad to administer their anthracite properties ) came into possession of the Brookside through its purchase of the Munson and Williams lands.

Munson batted. 308 with 100 RBIs in, giving him three consecutive seasons batting. 300 or better with 100 or more RBI each year.

The National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association awarded Munson its state-based Sportscaster of the Year Award on multiple occasions: 1960 ( WSM, Nashville ), 1963 ( WSM ), 1964 ( WSM ), 1965 ( WSM ) and 1969 ( WSIX, Nashville ) as the Tennessee Sportscaster of the year ; 1967 ( WSB, Atlanta ), 1971 ( WRFC, Athens ), 1982 ( Georgia Network, Atlanta ), 2002 ( WSB ) as the Georgia Sportscaster of the year.

The year 1919 found Munson back in New York, living with her mother in a boarding house owned by Dr. Walter Wilkins.

Munson appeared the next year in a musical comedy called Hot Heiress in which she sings several songs along with her co-star Ben Lyon.

The museum is on the site of what was once known as Whitneyville, the manufacturing village constructed along the Mill River to house the workers at the Eli Whitney Armory, and made famous by painter William Giles Munson, who sketched the Whitney Armory in 1826, a year after Whitney died, creating at least 3 paintings from those sketches over the next two decades.

Thurman Munson and Reggie Jackson had RBI singles in the rally that put the game out of reach, despite an otherwise fine pitching performance by Sutton.

Thurman Munson provided the Yankee runs in the third with a two-run homer of his own, but that was the only blemish on a pitching gem by Paul Splittorff.

Rivers placed third in the Most Valuable Player voting behind teammate Thurman Munson and George Brett and was named an outfielder on The Sporting News AL All-Star team.

Healy was noted for his close relationship with Reggie Jackson while on the Yankees, where he served as a mediator between the fiery slugger and Yankee manager Billy Martin, as well as teammate, captain Thurman Munson.

Born in Akron, Ohio, Munson was selected as the fourth pick of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft.

Munson was selected by the Yankees with the fourth overall pick in the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft.

The Munson Diner, Liberty Downtown Historic District, St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, and Town and Country Building are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

In September, Munson married Diana Dominick at St. John's Parish in Canton.

At the Provention Concert ( Sept. 2, 2008 at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn ), John Munson and Matt Wilson performed as The Twilight Hours and announced that they will have a new album coming out this fall.

Engelbart was born in Portland, Oregon on January 30, 1925 to Carl Louis Engelbart and Gladys Charlotte Amelia Munson Engelbart.

* Ronald Munson used an epistolary style in " Fan Mail " ( 1994 ), where the entire plot is told using e-mails, letters, transcripts of television shows and telephone conversations, faxes, and interactions with a computer program called ELIZA.

* Munson, Kenneth.

* November 18 – Release of the U. S. silent film Inspiration, the first mainstream movie in which a leading actress ( Audrey Munson ) appears nude.

** Thurman Munson, American baseball player ( b. 1947 )

* February 11 – Ona Munson, American actress ( b. 1903 )

Maybe I should say me and Munson, but he can only stir it bad.

Jackson has consistently denied saying anything negative about Munson in the interview and that his quotes were taken out of context.

Not Munson, not nobody else on this club.

" Regardless, as Munson was beloved by his teammates, Martin, Steinbrenner and Yankee fans, the relationships between them and Jackson became very strained.

During the World Series against the Dodgers, Munson was interviewed, and suggested that Jackson, because of his past post-season performances, might be the better interview subject.

He was the first active major league player to die during the regular season since 1979, when the New York Yankees ' Thurman Munson died in an aviation accident.

The movie stars Edward G. Robinson and features H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Oscar Apfel, Aline MacMahon, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, and Boris Karloff.

The point sources of the east branch of the Chagrin River are at Bass Lake in Munson Township and the southwest corner of the City of Chardon.

His friend Augustus J. Munson wrote, " Beverly Jefferson death deserves more than a passing notice, as he was a grandson of Thomas Jefferson ... was one of God's noblemen-gentle, kind, courteous, charitable.