i would drive up to boston, me and my friend, hector. he would jump in the car after the game. we would drive from boston to teterboro so he could jump on the plane and fly home to be with the family. that was thurmon munson. ed: he had an amazing run and you can check out a piece kevin kironen wrote and some stats they might not meet the stats for cooperstown. they like compiling stats, but you say. i thank kevin kernen, because the analytics say he s a hall of famer. states that he reached five or six guys are in the hall of fame and the fact that he was the all-time pull season hitter and i didn t want to come here to talk about that because kevin hit it, but at the same time, i ve got to thank neil diamond for his friendship. ed: why is that? his friendship to thurmon monson.
in pinstripes until he died in a plane crash. and joining me ray. great to be here. ed: you were friends with thurmon monson and i was eight years old in my swimming pool and learned about him dying. you said he was a great person. i think about diana and the daughters and thurmon all he wanted to do was to go home. i use today love to drive him to the airport because i would have my alone time and get to know him and i would have 0 had his cadillac for a week, a puerto rican kid driving around a cadillac. thank you, sir. he was an incredible man. ed: he died in a plane crash. you re referring to, when he had an off day he was learning to fly himself and get home to ohio because he wanted to be with with his family. we would be in boston, he would be in boston and he would say where are you? and he would call me, i m home this and that, okay, come on up,