April 25, 1976, was one of those times, and Chicago Cubs’ outfielder Rick Monday found himself at the forefront of baseball lore. I was lucky to experience my childhood in the 1990s and experience everything in real-time, which is now considered “nostalgic” by the same generation. For people who were alive in the 1970s, I’m sure they will be the first to express how tumultuous that period was, transpired by a slew of events that shook the world.
Kent State, the ‘Pentagon Papers, Apple Computers, and the Nuclear Proliferation Pact dominated the decade putting the country on its own roller coaster ride.