Posted on 04/25/2018 9:30:28 AM PDT by DFG
Forty years ago, a man and a child tried to burn a flag on the field at Dodger Stadium, and were thwarted by an ex-Marine outfielder. It's not as simple as it looks.
On April 25, 1976, on a hazy Sunday afternoon, the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs were playing the final game of a meaningless early-season series at Dodger Stadium when, quite suddenly, one person and then another ran onto the field. It was the bottom of the fourth inning, and Ted Sizemore was at bat.
Cubs centerfielder Rick Monday had experience dealing with streakers, drunks, and other intruders in the outfield, but he sensed something was different and otherwise awry. The pair just gave off "a vibe," he said.
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I disagree. I think the baseball crowd today would still all cheer. Just my thoughts.
It was that stupid, ugly stadium that killed baseball in Montreal.
That and Liberal Canadian Governments that kept screwing-up the economy and making it too expensive in a sport that paid for everything in US currency.
Back in the 1980’s, the Expos were on Canadian TV every week...the Blue Jays were not.
someone
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please archive Major League Baseball’s 2016 version of this:
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