The top 10 most impactful New York City sports captains

Fuente: New York Post

Sunday marks 47 years since we lost Thurman Munson, who not only played awfully close to Hall of Fame level for all of the nine-plus years he was a Yankee — (the opinion here: While it’s right that Don Mattingly’s candidacy seems to gather steam as the years go on, so should Munson’s) — he also left behind an even grander legacy. See Also hardball As Mets’ World Series drought agonizingly hits 40 years, David Stearns must reward Steve Cohen’s patience He made it OK to be captain of the Yankees again. After Lou Gehrig died, it became something of an assumed tradition that no other Yankee would ever be named captain.