title: Thurman Munson: A Baseball Biography
author:  Christopher Devine 
description: "delves into the player's background and personality without indulging in street-corner psychiatry...full of anecdotes and legends, quotes and commentary"--<i>The Diamond Angle</i>; "well-sourced"--<i>www.sports.espn.go.com</i>; "with expansive back-of-the-book notes to support his reporting, Devine offers scores of inside locker room words and actions of Billy Martin, Reggie Jackson, Jim Bouton, George Steinbrenner, Catfish Hunter and many others"--<i>Sports Collectors Digest</i>; "looks at the career of the Yankee captain and pays special attention to Munson's roles as teammate, friend, husband and father"--<i>The SABR Bulletin.</i>
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  The Conman
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Mike Murphey and Keith Comstock
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Acorn Publishing, LLC, 2019.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  THE CONMAN
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **First edition. November 11, 2019.**
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 Mike Murphey and Keith Comstock.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 978-1947392519
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Written by Mike Murphey and Keith Comstock.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  The Conman is dedicated to
  
  
  the memory of Dave Henderson,
  
  
  an extraordinary baseball player,
  
  
  and even better human being.
  
  
  Oh, man, Hendu,
  
  
  do we ever miss that smile!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  the
  
  
  conman
  
  
  (What follows is based on a true story.)
  
  
  by
  
  
  Mike Murphey  
  with Keith Comstock
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  FROM THE TINY ACORN…
  
  
  GROWS THE MIGHTY OAK
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  