Ben Schwartz writes,
30 years ago, former Cub Rick Monday saved an American flag from being burned on the field of Dodger Stadium. A legendary moment, recounted on the Cubs web site today, but until now I never knew the important role Tommy Lasorda, then a Dodger 3rd base coach, almost played in Rick Monday’s heroic act. As Tommy modestly recounts:
“A lot of people don’t know this, but he beat me to the flag,” recalls Lasorda. “I saw Rick start running over from center field to left. I didn’t know what it was, but as soon as I saw him start, I took off and I ran out there, and of course, by that time, Rick had picked up the flag and continued running. When I got there, I see these two guys and I told them, ‘Why don’t one of you guys take a swing at me?’ because there were 50-something thousand people in the ballpark and I only wanted them to swing at me, so I could defend myself and do a job on them.”
Now you know the rest of the story …
and do a job on them
tommy did later perform “jobs” on them during a midnight rendezvous at a highway rest stop.
yee haw
He beat me to the flag too.
That fateful day of near heroism for Tommy is when he realized he needed to lose the weight and start pitching diet shakes in case an American flag was ever put in danger again. Tommy has literally been in training every day since Rick Monday was forced to stand alone against those would-be flag-burners thirty years ago, and while some on CSTB in the I Hate America crowd might might mock TL’s near patriotism — it’s safe to say that no flag has ever been torched in Dodger Stadium on Tommy’s watch. Thank you, Tommy!
“it’s safe to say that no flag has ever been torched in Dodger Stadium on Tommy’s watch. Thank you, Tommy!”
I dunno I saw many a pennant flag torched during Tommy’s front office reign.
KCG