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Former major league baseball pitcher Roy Halladay passed from this earth on Tuesday, November 7 as the result of an airplane crash.\u00a0 It reminded me of another baseball great, Thurman Munson from 38 years earlier<\/p>\n

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Halladay pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies, from 1998 to 2013.\u00a0 He won two Cy Young Awards (earned by the best pitcher in the league) and was on 8 All-Star teams.\u00a0 More impressively he threw not one, but two no-hitters.\u00a0 This included only the 20th perfect game (no hits and no walks) thrown in the history of major league baseball.\u00a0 It seems like yesterday that I heard Marty Brennaman, the voice of the Cincinnati Reds, call a no-hitter as Halliday blanked the Reds in the 2010 playoffs.\u00a0 It was only the second no-hitter ever thrown in the post season.<\/p>\n

Halladay was flying an ICON A5, which is an amphibious aircraft.\u00a0 The plane can float and the wings fold up over the plane.\u00a0 It is a beautiful aircraft and can be seen at:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.iconaircraft.com\/a5<\/a>\u00a0 Halladay had been a pilot for three years, following in the footsteps of his Dad, who was a commercial pilot.<\/p>\n

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The crash occurred in the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0 While a definite cause of the accident cannot be made at this point, it seems that Halladay was doing some aggressive climbs and dives.\u00a0 Some reported it to be almost show boating.\u00a0 Like any other crash, this will be investigated by the National Transportation Safety Board and a report will be filed.\u00a0 Examples of accident investigations can be found at: https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/_layouts\/ntsb.aviation\/index.aspx<\/a> \u00a0I estimate that it will be 3-6 months before the report is made public.<\/p>\n

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Fans under the age of 50 will likely not know that is d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu.\u00a0 The New York Yankees had a star catcher in the 1970s named Thurman Munson.\u00a0 Munson was a 7 time All-Star and the American League Most Valuable Player in 1976.\u00a0 He was on his way to putting together a Hall of Fame career.\u00a0 That all came to an end in 1979 when he died in a plane crash.<\/p>\n

Munson had decided to fly in order to get home more frequently.\u00a0 He earned his pilots license in 1978.\u00a0 Unfortunately Munson had the means to buy more of an aircraft than he could handle at that stage of his pilot career.\u00a0 He purchased a Cessna Citation jet.\u00a0 On August 2, 1979 he was practicing approaches at Akron-Canton Regional Airport.\u00a0 He allowed the aircraft to get too low on final approach.\u00a0 The jet clipped a tree and crashed into a stump, bursting into flames.\u00a0 He was gone at age 32.<\/p>\n

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Halladay did not have his career ended by the crash, but did have his earthy life ended.\u00a0 It reminds me of the old expression pictured below.\u00a0 To which I can just solemnly say, Amen.<\/p>\n

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