Throwback Thursday: The Greatest Save in Baseball History
“It was the greatest heroic act that’s ever happened on a baseball field.”
Today we look back at the greatest play in the history of our national pastime, which took place 35 years ago this past Monday, April 25, 1976. Rick Monday was playing center field for the Chicago Cubs, when he noticed two unkempt hippies kneeling in left-center, attempting to burn The American flag. Monday, being a veteran of the Marine Corps Reserves and adamant patriot, was not about to stand idly by and watch these protestors desecrate Old Glory. He dashed toward them and scooped up the flag, saving it from flames. Only one thing could have made this an even more timeless TFM: if he’d looped around and delivered a patriotic double clothesline to those disrespectful clowns.
The flag was displayed in Monday’s Vero Beach home until a hurricane threatened its safety, and it was moved to a safety deposit box. Monday hasn’t given a specific value for the flag, but said, “you’d have to add a lot of zeros. People have offered an outrageous amount of money for it- not that it’s for sale.” Rick Monday, American hero, FaF.
Fucking hippies always trying to shit in some ones cereal. God Bless the U.S.A.,
14 years ago at 2:43 pmyeah obama does suck
14 years ago at 3:54 pmFrat on Monday, frat on.
14 years ago at 2:45 pmOnly time I’m ever going to approve of something done by the Cubs.
14 years ago at 2:47 pmgiving a shit what team monday played for and not acknowledging his patriotism = NF
14 years ago at 3:11 pmA True American Hero.
14 years ago at 2:47 pmThis is what you call a Total Frat Move
14 years ago at 2:54 pmI hope someone somewhere beat them within an inch of their lives.
14 years ago at 2:59 pmsecond
14 years ago at 3:03 pmAgreed.
14 years ago at 3:15 pmFaF
14 years ago at 3:01 pmBest Throwback Thursday yet.
14 years ago at 3:08 pmSecond
14 years ago at 3:16 pmSecond
14 years ago at 3:45 pmBest TFM yet.
14 years ago at 4:05 pmThe epitome of a TFM. God Bless America, God Bless Rick Monday and every single one of us that would do the same thing.
14 years ago at 3:09 pmThis is without a doubt the greatest thing I have ever seen. Not on this site, not on the internet, not on tv, but in my entire life. The true embodiment of a TFM.
14 years ago at 3:22 pmI do love this video and is definitely one of the greatest things ever but I would say W’s speech on ground zero, Washington crossing the Delaware, the flag raising on Iwo Jima, Reagan “Mr. Gorbachov tear down this wall!” I think rank with that not taking anything away from this.
14 years ago at 10:15 am