  We discuss the consequence of global polarization of the produced quarks in
non-central heavy-ion collisions on the spin alignment of vector mesons. We
show that the alignment is quite different for different hadronization
scenarios. These results can be tested directly by measuring the vector mesons'
alignment through angular distributions of the decay products with respect to
the reaction plane. Such angular distributions will give rise to azimuthal
anisotropy $v_2$ of the decay products in the collision frame. Constraints
provided by the data on the azimuthal anisotropy of hadron spectra at RHIC
points to a quark recombination scenario of hadronization.
