A brief and terribly unscientific trip through a recent Google search tells me that it has been exactly 9,999 days since October 6th, 1995. It’s a date that, at the time, nary a one of us observed with any real significance, with perhaps the exception of actor Brett Gelman, who surely enjoyed celebrating his 19th birthday in style somewhere.
Ron Gant had a day. So, too, did Boomer Wells, turning in the kind of ace-level performance that was expected of him when he became the big-time trade deadline acquisition of the Cincinnati Reds earlier that summer. In all, the Reds spent October 6th, 1995 putting a hurtin’ on Hideo Nomo and the Los Angeles Dodgers, sprinting past them by the score of 10-1 to sweep their former NL West rivals out of the National League Division Series.