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Fernandez tragedy brings echoes of Munson
- Updated: September 26, 2016
The public mourning of the death of Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez will last a few days. The memory, however, will linger forever, particularly with his teammates.
“When you go through that, it’s a complete shock,” said Jerry Narron, the rookie catcher whom the Yankees put in the lineup the day after Thurman Munson was killed in a plane crash in August 1979. “You don’t want to believe it, but you never get over it. It’s with you the rest of your life.”
There is a bond that comes for the men who share a clubhouse. They grow up in different cultures, but they are brought to gather by baseball.
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Lyman Bostock was an African-American born in Alabama who spent his youth in Gary, Ind., and the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. Baseball was his escape. It also was his demise.
After breaking into the big leagues with the Minnesota Twins, he …
