19760425 The greatest play in baseball history

The greatest play in baseball history

Posted April 2, 2008

Photo caption: Outfielder Rick Monday of the Chicago Cubs dashes

between two men in the Dodger Stadium outfield in

Los Angeles, in this April 25, 1976 photo, snatching an

American flag the men were about to burn.

By Jim Roark, Los Angeles Herald Examiner via AP

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Hat Tip: ciecker

The greatest play in baseball history.

And it didn't even involve the ball. Do you remember it?

http://www.keepingapace.com/blogarchives/sports/baseballs_greatest_play.php

The greatest play in Major league baseball occurred on April 25, 1976. Do you know where it happened? Who made it? The teams involved?

I found it on YouTube:

Rick Monday Saves American Flag

Chicago Cub baseball player Rick Monday saves an American flag from would be flag burners during a game in 1976. Full clip, with comments by Tommy Lasorda and Steve Garvey.

Sadly, according to a published account: “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.”