Posted on 01/21/2014 3:49:45 PM PST by FlJoePa
Awesome!
Absolutely !
The dodgers later traded for Rick Monday in part because of that play! Thanks for the reminder
BTW, there is a great video of a heckler at Dodger stadium, who is anti-Dodger. But he brings this incident up in a pretty funny fashion. I could not find it after a few quick searches. Maybe someone else has it? (previously it was posted here on FR).
To me, this picture epitomizes what baseball once was and why we loved it so much.
Missing (unless I missed it) from the list of 100 Greatest Sport Photos of All Time is the iconic photo of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He's on the medal winners' platform in the Gold position. One can see the thousands upon thousands of spectators jammed in the outdoor stadium. An unhappy Adolph Hitler himself was one of the spectators.....unhappy because an "African" beat out the German racers.
The photo shows Jesse, at attention, saluting the rising American flag, while the Silver and Bronze winners are giving the Nazi outstretched-arms salute.
Jesse won four Gold Medals, in the 100m, the 200m, the 4x10 relay and the long jump. His victories shattered Hitler's myth of Aryan superiority.
Owens' combined victories at the Berlin Olympics are considered among the greatest athletic feats of all time.
How this photo didn't make the cut is beyond me. It was an historic as well as a "great photo of all time" sports moment.
Leni
bttt
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