The Untold Story Behind Rick Monday’s 1976 Flag Rescue That Still Stirs the Nation 50 Years On
Said former Dodgers owner Peter O’Malley: “It’s one of the great moments in Dodger history.”
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That moment came courtesy of a guy wearing a Cubs uniform, but Monday grew up in Santa Monica and delivered his spontaneous commemoration of Flag Day in the year of America’s bicentennial.
“It all came together,” Steiner said. “The hometown kid, visiting from Chicago, doing what he did at that time in American history, it was just an unbelievable confluence of events.
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