The Legend Is Always Better...

Something is rankling me:In Marty Appel's Thurman Munson biography, he reveals that Orioles pitcher Tippy Martinez grooved a fastball to Bobby Murcer in the "Eulogy" game won by the Yankees 5-4.You know that game: It's curently in heavy rotation on YES and was originally broadcast on Monday Night Baseball which means a heavy dose of Howard Cosell. Here's the situation: The entire New York Yankee contingent travels to Canton, Ohio for Munson's funeral. Bobby Murcer and Lou Piniella are the eulogists. Emotionally spent, some players don't want to play that night's game against Baltimore. But owner George Steinbrenner proclaims, "that's what Yankees do." So they travel back to New York and play.Bobby Murcer is up at bat in ninth already having hit a three-run homer. For some reason, Yankee manager Billy Martin leaves the lefty Murcer in to face the lefty Tippy Martinez, a former Yankee and Munson devotee.Tippy gets two quick strikes on Mu...