Posted on 04/25/2019 1:54:35 PM PDT by CaliforniaCraftBeer
"What I knew was what they were doing was wrong then, and it's wrong today," said [Rick] Monday. "I had a lot of friends who lost their lives protecting the rights and freedoms that flag represented. I'm not sure what I was thinking, except I was angry and I started to run after them. It is the way I was raised growing up in Santa Monica, [Calif.], and it was reinforced by my six years in the Marine Reserves," he said. Monday said the crowd suddenly began to sing "God Bless America."...(with video)
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Today face recognition tech would be used to find out which fans sang ‘ God Bless America’.
Cool.
Thanks for sharing.
I had never heard about this story before.
One carried something under his shirt and then pull out the flag. The other pulled out a can of lighter fluid and started spraying it. As the first guy was striking a match (see pic) Rick Monday swooped in and swept the flag out from them and carried it off raising it high.
The punks thew the lighter fluid can at him and flipped him off as security ran up and nabbed them.
The crowd went wild.
Monday would later be traded to the Dodgers where he was super welcomed by the fans.
We all watched this take place stupefied that idiots could run onto the field. When the flag was raised high it was goosebumps amazing.
the greatest play in baseball
thanks for sharing corkoman
Monday still has the flag. He’s radio broadcaster for the Dodgers.
He’s from LA (Santa Monica).
He’s old school. He still pronounces Los Angeles with a hard g.
Loss Angle-uss
Great story. Thanks for posting this.
Never heard this story before. Thanks for sharing it. How times have changed. While I’m happy he’s being honored for this 40 years later, given the fall of this nation, I’m surprised he’s not being charged with theft.
Indeed it was “the greatest play in baseball.”
My husband and sons each have a copy of this framed picture!
Luv the Cubbies!!
good stuff
I’m surprised that the Yankees don’t take the opportunity to condemn Monday’s play as a horrible attack on those guys first amendment rights to free speech.
The New Woke Yankees. Spit.
Baseball used to be a business which was run by owners with conservative, pro-American traditional values, and who displayed those values in the public presentation of the sport on and off the field. What a contrast between 1976, when Monday saved the flag at Dodger Stadium and was lauded for it, to today, when Kate Smith recordings of "God Bless America" are banned, when Donald Trump is not even invited to throw out the first ball on Opening Day, when Opening Day is held in Tokyo and not Washington, when there are "Gay Day" promotions in various stadiums, when at least one team has promotions with the pro-Islamist CAIR, when there are all kinds of initiatives to promote "internationalism," etc. Leftist stuffed shirts have taken over the ownership and administration of the baseball "industry" in a coup, just as they have many other once-iconic American institutions.
Somewhat surprised that a guy like Rick Monday still has a job in today's perverse baseball structure.
ML/NJ
Today half the crowd in LA would probably be cheering for the flag burners and editorials trashing Monday for interfering with their “freedom of expression” would be written.
Probably the best play in Cubs history.
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