Posted on 04/25/2016 2:46:28 PM PDT by DFG
Today is the 40th anniversary of the greatest play in baseball history: Chicago Cubs outfielder Rick Monday snatching away an American flag from two hooligans determined to set it afire at Dodger stadium in Los Angeles. Scott reviewed this episode here on Power Line back in 2005 (and maybe Paul has, too, but I missed it in my archival search). But here’s the video of the episode with Monday’s recent comments about it at the end. Pay close attention to the narration by the great Vin Scully at the very beginning (this year being Scully’s last in the broadcast booth for the Dodgers). You can hear him say, “And wait a minute—there’s an animal loose. . .” Truer words have seldom been spoken!
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And so pleased that he became a Dodger.
Lucky it wasn’t a Mexican flag. Or, worse, a rainbow flag. He’d still be doing time. Well that WAS backing the day
I wish they would have beat the crap out of those stupid little punks right then and there.
Nowadays he would of been arrested for violating their 1st Amendment rights.
Ya, nowadays who knows how this would be handled. It was a great moment.
.... and Vinny calling the game.
After Rick Monday saved the flag in Dodger Statdium I knew that O’Malley would make him a Dodger.
bkmk
Nice piece of work.
The Dodgers had a very classy team in the late 80s, and Rick Monday was an integral part of it.
This “play” as a Chicago Cubs player, may have heavily influenced his acquisition by the Dodgers.
What era for Dodger fans, for baseball fans.
I was lucky to be a Dodger fan in those days, and I relish those moments thirty years later.
Baseball for me will always be the American pass-time.
I love the sport. I love it’s nuances and how it fit easily into the 1800s and 1900s lifestyle of the nation.
It was a better time folks.
I would love to know what happened to the two dirtbags who wanted to burn the flag. Where are they now? Do they regret it?
Cosell was AWFUL those years. You’d think you were watching a Yankees home game sitting in New York. He’d holler and shout when the Yankees scored and blather on endlessly about Reggie Jackson, and then mumble ... “home run, steve goh-vey.”
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