From 1976, baseball's greatest play - Rick Monday saves the American flag

Thirty-five years ago yesterday, major-league baseball's Rick Monday made what has been called one baseball's greatest plays.

The Cubs and Dodgers were playing in Los Angeles and with the Dodgers batting in the bottom of the 4th inning, two men ran onto the field, intending to burn an American flag. The men spread the flag on the outfield grass, and one of them soaked it in lighter fluid as the other was about to ignite it.

A quick-thinking Rick Monday ran towards the men, grabbing the flag and preventing the desecration of the Stars and Stripes.

Well done, Rick Monday.  Thank you.