Editor: This is the first installment of a season-long series by our resident Reds historian, John Ring. The series will examine the 50th anniversary of the 1968 Cincinnati Reds, a team on the brink (of huge success) playing during a year that it seemed the world was on the brink. Enjoy!
1968. It was a wild year if you lived through it.
It seemed like the world was turning upside down. It was crazy. It was spontaneous. A lot of times, it was heartbreaking. And most of all, memorable.
It was the height of the Vietnam War.