Is Rick Monday that old baseball player, who when some hippie jumped on the field and burned a flag, he turned his head away and refused to look? I think I read it in Beckett a long time ago.
Yes! Yes, that is him! the whole stadium gave him a standing ovation. He was saying in an interview that when he saw that he just knew it was wrong and went for it. Had been a second late, the flag would have been engulfed in flames because when he picked it up, the flag was doused in lighter fluid and the hippie was holding the lighter to it.