azcentral.com · Mar 29, 2016
ASU baseball to honor Rick Monday with special flag uniform
(Photo: Associated Press)Arizona State baseball will honor Rick Monday and its 1965 College World Series championship team by wearing commemorative uniforms against Arizona on April 26 at Phoenix Municipal Stadium.
Monday hit .359 in 1965, his only varsity season at ASU, and was named national Player of the Year by The Sporting News.
He was the first player selected in the first major league draft, going on to a 19-year career in the majors including with the 1981 World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.
Forty years ago, on April 25, 1976, Monday pulled a U.S. flag away from protesters attempting to burn it at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, where he was playing center field for the Cubs.