KANSAS CITY -- You probably have to be a long-time Yankees fan to know the story of their WWII-era second baseman.
Look up Snuffy Stirnweiss, the 1945 American League batting champion, and you'll notice that he died young.
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Stirnweiss was just 39 in 1958 when his Newark-to-Manhattan train ran a stop signal, jumped the tracks on an open lift bridge and crashed into Newark Bay.
Forty-eight passengers died, including Stirnweiss, who was a father of six.