It has been 36 years now, Diana Munson said on Saturday, so very long since her world changed forever and the Yankees lost their captain. She is grateful that fans still revere her husband, Thurman, part of a proud line of Yankees catchers with retired numbers and plaques in Monument Park.
“I’m 66; I don’t know how long I’ll be coming to the stadium,” she said Saturday, on the suite level at Yankee Stadium. “So when I see these people with No. 15, I always go up and hug them. Michael, my son, said, ‘Mom, you’re becoming a little bit of a stalker,’ and I said, ‘Do I seem like that?