Munson: The Life and Death of a Yankee Captain (46 page)

Erik Jensen interview with author, reprinted by permission.

Transcript of Thurman Munson pregrame interview with Frank Messer in July 1979, copyright © New York Yankess. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

Transcript of Thurman Munson interview on WNEW’s
Sports Extra
in 1979, news material courtesy of WNYW News, Fox Television Stations, Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

Material from
Number 1
by Billy Martin and Peter Golenbock (Delacorte Press, 1980) reprinted by permission.

Material from
Balls
by Graig Nettles and Peter Golenbock (Pocket, 1985) reprinted by permission.

Material from
Sweet Lou
by Lou Piniella and Maury Allen (G. P. Putman, 1986) copyright © by Productions for a New Beginning and Maury Allen. Reprinted by permission.

Tucson Citizen
article, written by Corky Simpson, copyright © 1979, 2008
Tucson Citizen
. Reprinted by permission.

Jerry Anderson in an interview for ESPN by Tom Rinaldi, reprinted by permission.

Keith Olbermann interview with the author, reprinted by permission.

MARTY APPEL
worked in the Yankees’ public relations department from 1968 to 1977, including three seasons as the director. He later became an Emmy Award-winning producer of their games on WPIX, giving him a twenty-year relationship with the team, which continues to this day as a contributor and consultant. He has also worked for Major League Baseball and the Topps Company, and now runs Marty Appel Public Relations (
www.appelpr.com
). His previous books include
Now Pitching for the Yankees
, a memoir, named best New York baseball book of 2002; and
Slide, Kelly, Slide
, winner of the Casey Award as baseball book of the year in 1996. His collaborations include books with Bowie Kuhn, Lee MacPhail, Tom Seaver, Larry King, Eric Gregg, and Thurman Munson. He has won the Dick Young and Dick Steinberg Awards, was consulting producer to the ESPN series
The Bronx Is Burning
, and a consultant to the HBO movie
61*
. He is editor-at-large for
Memories and Dreams
, the magazine of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Mr. Appel resides in New York City and has two children, Brian and Deborah. This is his seventeenth book.

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Title-page spread photos courtesy of Marty Appel.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Appel, Martin.
  Munson : the life and death of a Yankee captain / by Marty Appel.—
1st ed.
    p. cm.
  1. Munson, Thurman, 1947-1979. 2. Baseball players—United States—
Biography. I. Title.
  GV865.M78A67 2008
  796.357092—dc22
  [B]
2008026442

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