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Thurman Munson’s Fierce Fisk Rivalry, Dropped Third Strikes and Assists

rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox is intense, but the rivalry between Thurman Munson and Carlton Fisk might have been even more fierce.

Rob Neyer, in Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Legends, investigated the claim that Munson once deliberately dropped six or seven of Ron Guidry's strikeout pitches because of his competition with Fisk.

Christopher Devine, in Thurman Munson: A Baseball Biography, and Dan Okrent and Steve Wulf, in Baseball Anecdotes, each wrote about the story.

Neyer discovered what really happened from Marty Appel. It is a great story, but it apparently never happened. Still, the following is what Appel says.

Munson was aggravated that Fisk received more attention than he did. "It's ...

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