Thurman Munson & the Shea Stadium scoreboard: The awful way Lee Mazzilli and Mets found out about Yankee catcher’s death

Forty years ago Friday, around 5:30 in the afternoon, a major-league baseball game froze.

The batter stepped from the plate and walked to the dugout. Players in the field also turned away, staring instead at the big scoreboard in right field. The tiny crowd went silent.

Decades before Twitter and...