Any Rick Monday G/U items? 40th Anniv.

[Swoboda4]

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.

[ironmanfan]

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..

[Swoboda4]

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.

[metsbats]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZzeEaBHUBM


For those who are too young to remember

[Misha]

1970 jersey. NOB restored by Lon Lewis

[Misha]

Back

[012562]

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

[Juicyfruit66]

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).

[Juicyfruit66]

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/R7UlrLlKg0A

[Swoboda4]

Juicyfruit66 thanks, those were some tall outfield walls. Misha, what a great jersey. It's too easy to get a jersey these days, and expensive. I may go back to hunting out old school game used. 012562, -1980, you were collecting before the game used boom hit. Imagine asking Mantle for a broken bat and as he hands it to you- instead of throwing it in the garbage pail-he smiles and says," Why do you want a cracked bat for?"