July 1st, 2009 06:00am
Thurman Munson bio alert
by OldSchool
Thirty years ago, Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died in a private plane crash. He was 32. In 1978, Marty Appel co-wrote Munson’s autobiography. Now he’s written a more thorough, independent book on the 1976 American League MVP.
According to Richard Sandomir’s story in Monday’s New York Times, the new Munson biography digs deep into “Munson’s love-starved family life.” A book that helps illuminate Munson as a real, flesh-and-blood, driven and conflicted human being rather than merely a star whose career was tragically cut short will be welcome.
Robert Rubino has been a daily copy editor for nearly 30 years and a weekly sports columnist for 15 years. 
It was also about 30 years ago, following Thurman Munson’s crash, that your colleague, Lowell Cohn, in response to the Michael Jacksonian frenzy surronding Munson’s death, wrote a piece about Munson entitled: “A jerk is a jerk”. Cohn’s title was very appropriate in describing this arrogant man.
You should did this out of Cohn’s archieves – it was an excellent and memorale read.
by Paul Astrup