Much has changed in my life since 1995. Marriage, five kids, graduated from college and lived in eight different residences in the Wichita-area. One thing that is not different, though, is my love for KC Royals baseball.
That led me to a crazy round trip from Wichita to watch the Royals on a belated Opening Day in 1995. The prior season, baseball was cut short due to a strike with the Boys in Blue just three games removed from the wild card and four from the division lead. This robbed the team a chance at postseason play that would not come around again for 19 years.