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01-08-2016, 06:11 AM #1
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Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.
With the 40th anniversary of Rick Monday saving the American flag from being burned in the Dodger Stadium outfield this season (April 25), I'm wondering if anyone has anything Rick Monday game used? Rick, who will be 80 years old that day made the most memorable non-game play that I can think of. These are the only items I have of this great play.
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01-08-2016, 07:29 AM #2
Re: Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.
neat items although Rick is only 70 years old......I figured he couldn't have been 40 when that incident happened since he played years afterwards..
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01-08-2016, 10:05 AM #3
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Re: Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.
Ironmanfan, I'm very happy to find myself wrong about Rick's age. No more so than Rick would. I vaguely remember it as a kid, and I'm more fascinated by it now.
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01-09-2016, 12:43 AM #4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZzeEaBHUBM
For those who are too young to remembermetsbats86@aol.com
Always looking for 1973,1986,1988,1999,2000,2006 game used Mets post season and Bobby M. Jones and Ed Hearn NY Mets game used bats.
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01-10-2016, 11:24 PM #5
Re: Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.
1970 jersey. NOB restored by Lon Lewis
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01-10-2016, 11:25 PM #6
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01-11-2016, 03:43 AM #7
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Re: Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.
I kept one of Rick's cracked Louisville Slugger bats from his days with the Cubs, along with a home Dodgers game used jersey, Dodgers batting glove and Dodgers uncracked batting helmet, all acquired about 1980.
Tom
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01-11-2016, 11:06 PM #8
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Flag incident was nothing compared to what Monday did to Expos fans
The 1981 National League Championship Series was a best-of-five series between the first-half West Division champion Los Angeles Dodgers and the second-half East Division champion Montreal Expos. The Dodgers won the NLCS three games to two over the Expos, thanks to a ninth-inning home run in Game 5 by Rick Monday in what has ever since been referred to as Blue Monday by Expos fans. It was the first postseason appearance for the Expos, and their only appearance during their time in Montreal (the team moved to Washington, DC in 2005, becoming the Washington Nationals).
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01-13-2016, 12:12 AM #9
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Re: Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.
You never know who ends up being an Expo (Daniel Murphy included) I'm only realizing it with these photo enlargements, but Swoboda's hat on the card,was painted to be an Expos cap. Love to have that original photo negative from Topps. We're dangerously close to becoming a non game used topic:
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01-13-2016, 07:44 AM #10
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Re: Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.
Let me stop after this as I've highjacked my own thread. The ticket to the very last Expos game for which I was present. Tom Glavine pitched. Mike Piazza played first base. Rookie David Wright hit his 14th HR ever. It was also Todd Zeile's last game in which he hit a home run(253 HR life time, to D.Wrights current 235 HR now). In the next at bat he was introduced, went to the plate,and then taken out of the game to applause never saw that before. Endy Chavez played on the Expos that game.