He was Eliminated From the Playoffs, Dead Four Days Later

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• BA

  @baseball_scars · 2 weeks ago (edited) · pinned

  Apologies. We had to cut out a short clip at the beginning of the video.<br><br>A lot of you have flagged the Clemente comparison, and it&apos;s a fair catch. Roberto Clemente wasn&apos;t a pilot, he was a passenger on an overloaded DC-7 carrying earthquake relief to Nicaragua on New Year&apos;s Eve 1972. He died trying to help people, not flying a private plane for himself. That&apos;s a real and important difference from Lidle and Munson, who were both at the controls of their own aircraft, and the video should have drawn that line more clearly.

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• ST

  @stevencooke1027 · 2 weeks ago

  I think you should have mentioned that Lidle&apos;s wife and son did receive the standard $450 K insurance payment.

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• SN

  @snarkyguy2657 · 2 weeks ago

  One additional interesting fact: &nbsp;One of the apartments affected by the crash was owned by a woman who 9+ years earlier was seriously injured by the runaway Cat In The Hat balloon at the Macy&apos;s Thanksgiving Day Parade. &nbsp;The engine of his plane ended up in her living room.

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• YA

  @Yankeesfan964 · 2 weeks ago

  This was a great video. I remember my father picking me up from after school program this day and he tried to explain what had happened then we listen to the Michael Kay show where I could vividly remember them playing the song live like you were dying. I’ve spent the next 20 years of my life, looking for audio from that very show.

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• DA

  @DanWalls-q4f · 2 weeks ago

  Cory Lidle, Roy Halladay... and Jose Fernandez all in the span of 11 years

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• PI

  @pickford3152 · 2 weeks ago

  I remember when this happened but i enjoyed watching lidle when he was a blue jay

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• JT

  @jtshark5817 · 2 weeks ago

  The PIlot rule is called the Thurmon Munson rule by many

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• CH

  @ChrisBender-h7p · 10 days ago

  I remember seeing this live on TV shortly after yanks were eliminated by Detroit. I admire someone who wants to be a pilot but between lidle munson and Halladay from the bottom of our hearts...don&apos;t! Rip all.

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• GE

  @GeeEm1313 · 2 weeks ago

  I remember when this happened. RIP

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• CA

  @carrollton5905 · 7 days ago

  WILD thumbnail

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• JA

  @jaycompany4886 · 2 weeks ago

  I remember this like if it was yesterday....very sad.

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• LA

  @LaMostraVia · 2 weeks ago

  Wow. That has to be up there with the worst trade ever. I get it Philia was probably freeing up some money but jeez

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