Posted on 03/18/2014 6:21:13 PM PDT by dontreadthis
Excellent. Great comments from Monday too.
This link has comments and most, not all, but most look just like us here, very respectful and full of pride in the greatness of this save!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IrV8QPQAhxo
Thanks. Good to know there are like minded folks able to comment about this on u tube ;)
Rick Monday was a fine ballplayer who had many career highlights, but to be remembered for this is not bad.
Is that John Kerry?
I remember Yankee fans all over the field after Chris Chambliss’s homerun in the 1976 ALCS. Chambliss had to come back later and touch home plate.
That is so cool———thanks for sharing it.
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I remember it. Brings tears to my eyes.
I’ve seen that video before. It is and always will be worth watching again.
Monday got standing O’s in ballparks around the country after that. And, the Dodgers traded for him the next year.
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-22586.html
Why did these protesters, (scumbag’s name here), 36, and his 11-year-old son run onto the field to burn the flag? They were arrested and fined $60. Monday said he never was interested in asking. Attempts to locate (scumbag’s name here), or to determine whether he’s still alive, were unsuccessful.
What happened to the photographer, James Roark, of the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald Examiner, who shot the only photo of the incident? Roark, whose photo was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, lost his job, became a night cook in Portland and was beaten and killed outside a restaurant in 1995. He was 49.
And the tattered flag that was soaked with lighter fluid? It’s in Monday’s possession in a safe-deposit box, surviving the hurricanes near his Vero Beach, Fla., home. He was offered $1 million for the flag several years ago, he said, but rejected the overture.
“The flag is faded, and it’s somewhat tattered,” Monday said. “It wasn’t like it was just bought off the shelf. It wasn’t in great shape from the start.
“But the flag is not for sale. What this flag represents, you can’t buy.”
thank you for rounding this out
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