[DFG]

Rick Monday rescued the US Flag 42 years ago today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrV8QPQAhxo

[fwdude]

I didn’t see the “child.”

[bramps]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbr1hNp-nI4

[Angels27]

If that were to happen today, he’d (Monday) be booed by half the stadium

[jazusamo]

Rick Monday years later w/flag

[OttawaFreeper]

Mind you, he broke my 11 year old heart in October 1981 with that home run against the Montreal Expos (with Steve Rogers on the mound)that won the NL pennant for the Dodgers, lol.

[HotHunt]

I knew Rick Monday when we were in college together at Arizona State University back in the 60s. Had a couple of classes with him.

All-American and College Baseball Player of the Year as a sophomore. Led the Sun Devils to the College World Series Championship in 1965.

Rick introduced me to Reggie Jackson between classes one day. He took Monday's place on the Sun Devil squad in center field when Monday became the first player ever selected for the Major Baseball League draft.

Great guys in school. But none of us knew how far their baseball careers would take them. They made the Sun Devils proud.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[elcid1970]

The article is all but sympathetic to the would-be flag burners; “Tommy LaSorda screamed curses at them”, “they were called all kinds of names & threats were made”, “He was calling attention to his wife’s plight”, yadda yadda yadda.

We patriotic yahoos didn’t know `the rest of the story’ until now, the writer implies.

No wonder Rick Monday is still furious. But he still has the flag he rescued.

[scottinoc]

That was one of the greatest moments in sports history, and emblematic of why baseball is America’s game. Compare and contrast with the Ninnies, Felons and Losers.

[CaliforniaCraftBeer]

someone
anyone
please archive Major League Baseball’s 2016 version of this:

https://atmlb.com/2r2TBaG