Inside Ron Guidry’s 18-K masterpiece, 40 years later

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Ron Guidry is congratulated by Thurman Munson and Chris Chambliss after his 18-strikeout masterpiece on June 17, 1978. The problem, if you want to call it that, with the Yankees’ decades upon decades of greatness is that the quantity can mitigate the quality.

For other franchises, Ron Guidry’s 18-strikeout game, which celebrates its 40th anniversary on Sunday, would be a no-doubt-about-it, top-10 moment.

For the Yankees? Guidry isn’t sure it’s his favorite game from even that season, let alone his career.

“That game was great. It’s etched in your memory,” Guidry said earlier this week, after the Yankees gave away a Guidry bobblehead to commemorate the milestone anniversary. “The…